> > At our hospital it was Cerner versus VistA. Cerner won. Just curious. Was "Physician Satisfaction with Two Order Entry Systems", a research paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 8 Number 5 Sep/Oct 2001 ever being used for publicity purposes.
The research assesses physician satisfaction with the user interface of CPRS of VistA with a commercially available product (the product was not named) available at the Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. I don't know what the other system is. Anyone knows which system is it? I was pleasantly surprised to read that physicians were generally dissatisfied with the commercial product and were more satisfied with the CPRS. Just wondering if that research paper should be used more extensively to promote VistA? One of our "paperless" hospitals here is using the cerner system and they had endless integration problems that had to be solved with huge expenditure. With that experience with cerner, I have my doubts our Govt will experiment with cerner again but what are the alternatives? And they have money to spend :) When a new hospital is built they can't wait for "volunteers" to tinker with a system to customize for the local setting. So we're back to the "business model" that any group needs to put together quickly to beat competition during this current surge in uptake in computerized systems in hospitals and clinics. Had there > been a vibrant, interested, critically massed open source community > surrounding VistA, VistA would have won. > I still think we need to present this in a "business" manner with a trusted entity spear-heading it. And there is also the usual procurement processes that one has to contend with - specifications for different sized hospitals, bank guarantees, contracts, performance indicators, timelines etc. > 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. > Are there product brochures available for marketing VistA? The OSS community is familiar with these but are the decision makers (usually committees) aware of these? As mentioned by Joseph, there are bits at the DoD and the Indian Health Services. Are these being integrated into the version of VistA that are being promoted to the hospitals outside VA and who is doing the integration? I see the major problem being lack of funds. Medsphere is progressing rapidly because they do have a business plan and they also do have funding. Am I right Scott? Molly -- Dr Molly Cheah Primary Care Doctors' Organisation Malaysia (PCDOM) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-site: http://pcdom.org.my DAGS Project: http://pcdom.org.my/dags/ DAGS Pilot: http://pilot.pcdom.org.my
