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If you're in the US, the federal government actually created one one of the most widely used EHRs and set of clinical applications in the world, called VistA. I
by dashundchen 4y ago
If you're in the US, the federal government actually created one one of the most widely used EHRs and set of clinical applications in the world, called VistA. It was made for the VA but is used outside of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
It's actually public domain and open-source. Unfortunately the VA is in an ongoing project to replace it with Cerner Millennium.
- robertlagrant 4y agoA project that's not going well. VA system might be MUMPS based, but it's very good, as you say. The big issue from my EHR-adjacent vantage point is that all the money is in making giant, entrenched EHRs, whereas the future should be in lighter-weight services that conform to standards, and competition is between those services. That way you could gradually slice off VA functionality piece by piece, and have a successful, more efficient, gradual migration.