WorldVistA Receives 2007 Linux Medical News Freedom Award

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 is a benchmark for what the Free and Open Source in medicine community can achieve. We are indebted to WorldVistA for keeping FOSS in medicine alive and competitive."  said Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS Founder and editor of Linux Medical News.