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Economics of WorldVistA: Advocacy called for to deliver interoperability in EMRs

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Dr. Stephan Foreman, RMU health care economist, identified the electronic medical record (EMR) as a public good, a marketplace for information about patients. Foreman observed that the public wants EMR systems to communicate with other, a goal that is furthered by VistA and WorldVistA, but not necessarily by commercial organizations. He sees VistA and WorldVistA … Read more

Reports of MUMPS Programmer Mass Extinction Greatly Exaggerated

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The VistA community replies to Jonathan Bush that reports of MUMPS programmers’ total extinction have been greatly exaggerated. Jonathan Bush of Athena Health in this interview claims that “There’s nobody left alive that can write MUMPS anymore!” Many MUMPS programmers in the VistA community on the Hardhats list responded with surprise and incredulity: “I’m dead?…Why … Read more