Re: Sherlock Holmes

[Ignacio Valdes]

While there is merit in the things you say, VistA players were by far the largest segment of the crowd at OSHCA 2002 and KS Baskar who was instrumental in open sourcing GT.M won the Linux Medical News Achievement Award. As I understand it, a problem right now is that a fully open source stack for VistA isn't completely available yet. Perhaps some of the Hardhats would care to comment?

-- IV

On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:47:16 -0500
John Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I hypothesize that unless the open source community embraces VistA (embraces meaning starts throwing coding resources at it big time) that there will never be open source medical solutions. Not at the rate things are going now.

At our hospital it was Cerner versus VistA. Cerner won. Had there been a vibrant, interested, critically massed open source community surrounding VistA, VistA would have won.

Please recall that VistA is installed in every VA hospital and is beloved by users. Please recall also that today the VA is acknowledged to be at the forefront of patient safety initiatives, for example, barcode scanning of medications at the point of care.