VistA news from FierceHealthIT
NewsDoD, VA will use service-oriented architecture in joint EHR
The ever-evolving, contentious effort to merge the electronic health records of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department just took another step forward. Mark Goodge, chief Read more...
CONNECT to undergo facelift with help of federal grant
The government has decided to continue developing its CONNECT software, which links users to the National Health Information Network (NHIN) and can be downloaded for free by private health Read more...
Health IT talk in Obama's State of the Union brief, but notable
While President Barack Obama did take a little bit of time in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to talk about healthcare, predictably focusing on the Affordable Care Act, he only briefly Read more...
Original VistA designer discusses lessons learned over 32 years
Tom Munnecke, one of the original designers of the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA system in the late 1970s, is concerned that planning for a next-generation EHR isn't taking into account many Read more...
VA, DoD will share a single identifier for each patient
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have reached an agreement to assign a single lifetime personal identifier that would follow a service member from enlistment until Read more...
Report calls for VA to continue on open-source track with VistA upgrade
As the Department of Veterans Affairs modernizes its successful but aging Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture (VistA) clinical system, an IT industry group is recommending Read more...
California hospital says it's first to self-implement VistA
Hard to believe--and we'd like to see some more proof ourselves--but a California hospital claims that it is the first in the country to download the VA's VistA EMR software and tailor the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Kolodner joining open-source consortium
Former national health IT coordinator Dr. Robert Kolodner, a key figure in building out the VistA system at Veterans Health Administration over many years, has surfaced as chief health information Read more...
Advocates battle to keep open source in HIT reform efforts
As providers line up to take advantage of stimulus funds encouraging health IT use, some IT pros say a crucial issue is being overlooked. Open-source technology advocates say that the existing Read more...
VA plans EMR-based project to study treatment effectiveness
The VA has begun a national initiative using data from its EMR to study how well various treatments work for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Read more...
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