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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) secretary David Shulkin announced a major overhaul of the department's Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.
The department will scrap its in-house developed EHR systems, known as VistA in favor of MHS GENESIS, the EHR system in use by the U.S. Department of Defense.
MHS GENESIS is based on the Cerner Millenium API. For those of you who will ask, no, Cerner Millenium is *not* open source.
VistA, the current DVA system was originally conceived as a "paperless" health records management system in the early 1970s, developed and implemented by DVA and other government agencies, both in the United States and in a number of other countries including Finland, Egypt and Germany. VistA is in the public domain
So what say you, Soylentils? Does it make sense to throw out decades of development on a platform both widely used and in the public domain? Should the government be doing its own software development?
Are you a government contractor doing software development? If so, how might this and/or similar actions affect you?
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White House press briefing/announcement from Secretary Shulkin
Healthcare IT News
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Kansas City Star
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 06 2017, @11:53PM (1 child)
For Joe Citizen, with just about any level of healthcare, normally your medical record PRECEDE you.
The new doc has it before you get there. Worst case you walk in and sign a paper and its all in the new Doc's system the next day. Even when moving from one big-hospital-system to another.
Sometimes there is some duplicate Data Entry. Probably can't be avoided, Systems have different ages and features. But I've seen my records move from a private hospital chain to a University medical center in another state and all the particulars were there when I arrived.
Why should one organization have more problems than 35 big hospital chains and a gazillion clinics?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by sbgen on Wednesday June 07 2017, @03:11AM
".. your medical records precede you..private hospital chain to University medial center in another state..." Hmm Let me see, I moved from a University Hospital system to a private hospital system, in the same town - that was over two years ago. My records are not here - not even after signing the "form" more than twice. I have a hard time believing VA is the only place the records dont follow you.
Warning: Not a computer expert, but got to use it. Yes, my kind does exist.