VistA is a full-featured, health information system (HIS) which includes an Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record (EHR/EMR) developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. VistA has been successfully deployed in 300 clinics, 170 VA hospitals and approximately 30 private sector sites. There are several commercial ventures offering installation and support for OpenVistA and VistA. VistA may be the only successful National health-care IT infrastructure software ever developed. VistA is in the public domain, and is accepted as compatible with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) licenses. VistA now runs on a completely FOSS stack which is defined as an entire software platform from the operating system to end-user applications that are entirely FOSS licensed. VistA is based on a GNU GPL licensed MUMPS compiler called GT.Mtm and runs on GNU/Linux. The presentation will feature a live demonstration which will show OpenVistA's characteristics and capabilities.
Presenter
Brian Lord, brianlord@nc.rr.com is President of Sequence Managers Software and serves on the Board of Directors for World VistA Durham, NC 27703 Lord has been involved with 3 successful implementations of OpenVistA running on GT.M and GNU/Linux, including the initial GT.M conversion. He was involved with the HIPAA compliance project for the VA's EDI system. He is currently involved with the VistA Office EHR project as an engineer and is involved in several OpenVistA based projects designed to give wider access to the OpenVistA software nationally and internationally.