My understanding was that VistA has a separate outpatient module. One way to promote the full VistA implementation would be promote this to private practice guys who have looked at commercial packages and winced at the total acquisition cost.
It would seem that someone who wanted to promote VistA could bundle the OP module and the M platform in a easy to install Windows or Linux-based CD for demo purposes. If we are not at that point where this is feasible, then we should delay discussion until it is actually demonstrable to large numbers of people. An open-source product that is demonstrable on the Windows platform would be a (pardon the military expression) force multiplier. You would have thousands of proto-geek MDs installing this and talking about it at hospital staff meetings, the doctor's lunchroom and medical society meetings. We need a groundswell of interest in SOMETHING to induce decision makers to consider open-source as a concept. There must be people on this list who have the technical skills to do this ...
