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.