M to remain current and participate in the market then the "gurus" have nothing further that they can say - common knowledge has said it all. We have got work to do to get back to where we were in 1999 let alone where we should be in 2006. Concurrently, while we get the common conventions for the technical platform in shape we should be striving to be in full mastery of the healthcare conceptual content in making sure all M/WV partiipcants understand what standards are relevant to VistA and to its evolution. We have to understand where VistA has been and where it needs to go -a Bhaskar clealry points out. That means we need to expand our community involvement.
On Mon, 9 May 2005, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
Part of the problem is our cultural predisposition to equate old with obsolete, inadequate, and useless. When were the standards established for screws? Yet, in this 21st century, I still count on going to the hardware store and being able to purchase a screw that fits by looking at a bin labelled with the number of the thread standard.
The problem with VistA is not its age per se. It is a culture that doesn't plan for a process of refreshing and renewal. The question to ask for VistA (or any other major enterprise wide application) should not be, "How long can we live with it and when will it be obsolete?" Rather it is, "How do we keep VistA viable for the next hundred years?" The VistA of a hundred years from now is guaranteed to look nothing like the VistA of today, but there will have been a continuum of availability and useful service. Rome to us doesn't doesn't look anything like the way it looked to Julius Caesar, but there has been a Rome in continuous existence for over 2,000 years because no city planner said, "The city will be obsolete in ten years, and we'll just raze it and replace it with a new city that has the latest [[insert hot buzzphrase]] in urban planning."
-- Bhaskar
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