Gentlemen; Please be aware that there are some additions to the FOIA as implemented in VistA Office. Some of these are Pediatrics, OB/Gyn, and support for Billing. These are not represented in the FOIA currently. The expectation is that these functionalities will be aded to the FOIA eventually (after they have been worked out in the field for a while and these test sites get the functionality stabilized and add some new functionality (this is what VistA is good for, extension to fit more needs). Not all of the VA functionality is currently turned on in the VistA Office because in private practice, a lot of the questions that the VA ask are of no interest to the private practice (Years of Millitary Service, branch of military service, etc).
There is much new that will make configuring VistA easier so that specific aspects can be turned on and off selectively by the implementor. This capability is expected to migrate into the VA VistA model and back to the FOIA VistA. By the time it hits the FOIA VistA it will have been checked by CMS, VA, and a hunk of the testing community. This is all a process, and processes need time to adjust and adapt, something that the VistA model has shown time and time again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Berman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: CMS NEWS: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD,SOFTWARE DELIVERED TO, PHYSICIAN OFFICES > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:25 -0400, Dr. Schrom wrote: > > I'm not opposed to allowing authors of proprietary software to have free rein > > to market their software and support as aggressively as their business ethics > > allows. VistA is in the public domain under FOIA, therefore CMS really shouldn't > > have the right to release a derivative of it (i.e. Vista-office) in any way > > which restricts "public" access to it. I should have the right to install it > > without vendor support. Sure, GPL projects flop, but the GOOD ones survive > > largely because of "support" from communities like Hardhats. I haven't met > > any of them personally, but there are some really bright people on this list, > > and if the can work someone like me through an installation of VistA, I don't > > feel that I want or need paid support, and I should not be required to buy it. > > > No. That is *WHAT* Public Domain means. It means anyone can take > anything and do anything with it. Which is why CMS can take VistA, and > release a version of it they sell only to doctors with red hair if they > want. It is a piece of software under the public domain, they are free > to do what they would with it, but *you are too*. > > No one can force you to buy or pay anything for VistA, as the FOIA is > under public domain. But VOE is a totally different beast. > > I believe the hope on this list is that CMS will release it into the > public domain or at least a opensource license, however I am not even > sure that has been confirmed. > > Just because software is given away doesn't make it opensource, or in > the public domain. > > --Todd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
