Ignacio...the only piece that is missing is an open source version of the GUI front end....which is currently implemented in Delphi. Scott Shreeve had indicated last year that he was working on porting to Kylix but I haven't seen anything yet. A group from New Zealand also offered to take this on at OSHCA in LA...will drop them a line and see if this has been done or is in the works.
Joseph On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 10:47, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > 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. -- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e-cology corporation
