While coming equipped with powerful text-based scheduling capabilities, the private-sector VistA and WorldVistA(tm) Electronic Medical Record system communities have long wanted but lacked a Graphic User Interface scheduling front end. Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS reports “The wait is over. Sam has done it.” Sam Habiel is a skilled software engineer for the Indian Health … Read more
A whole new era for Veterans Affairs VistA has begun with Kevin Toppenberg, MD’s new TMG-CPRS 1.0.26.76 (TMG v1.1) client. The new tmg-cprs client enables clinical notes to be rendered in html. This allows mixed typefaces, bold, center, right justification, left justification and italics in clinical notes while maintaining compatibility with Veterans Affairs cprs. … Read more
The announcement can be found on the CCHIT website.
New York Times – Op-Ed Contributor
For a copy of the full report click on this LINK
The VistA Demo Appliance debuted at the First WorldVistA (http://worldvista.org) Educational conference at the Sewall Conference Center of Robert Morris University (RMU; http://rmu.edu), Moon Township, Pennsylvania, near the Pittsburgh International Airport. This breakthrough, leveraging virtual technology, makes it possible to install VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) environments on PCs and is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60087. It … Read more
The WorldVistA organization was co-recipient of the 2007 Linux Medical News Freedom award for its work in getting WorldVistA EHR/VOE 1.0 certified by the Center For Certification of Health Information Technology (CCHIT). The award was presented to WorldVistA at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall conference: “WorldVistA’s achievement was a true team effort and … Read more
George Lilly’s recent presentation on ‘Opensource CCR and CCD supportfor VistA based systems’ can be found here.
Dr. David Eibling, Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Dr. Augie Turano, Heathcare Informatics Solution Architect, VA Pittsburgh, recommended at the First WorldVistA Education Conference, being held at Robert Morris University (RMU), the use of icons and timelines in Electronic Medical Records such as the Veterans Affairs VistA to represent the course of … Read more
Peter Groen has written a brief paper outlining several of the non-clinical applications in VA’s VistA that could be useful to a health care organization. To read the paper please follw this LINK.
