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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?
Other Coverage:
White House press briefing/announcement from Secretary Shulkin
Healthcare IT News
Defense One [behind script wall]
Kansas City Star
FCW
(Score: 1) by rider_prider on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:56PM (1 child)
"If every user has to log in as themselves - that will not, and has not eve worked, on any hospital system, ever"
Actually unique logins for every user is fundamental to health systems, good clinical practice and most privacy legislation requires it.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:22PM
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