The history and accomplishments attributed to VistA, the
Veterans
Administration's core administrative software, mark it as one of
the
most impressive software projects in history. Still, lots of
smart
people in the health care field deprecate VistA and cast doubt
that it
could ever be widely adopted. Having spent some time with people
on
both sides, I'll look at their arguments in this blog, and
then
summarize other talks I heard today at the
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010">Open Source
Convention
health care track.
Yesterday, as
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/day-one-of-the-health-care-it.html">I
described in my previous blog, we heard an overview of trends
in
health care and its open source side in particular. Two open
source
free software projects offering electronic health records
were
presented, …