Wayne Wilson wrote:
Anser is yes because of error reduction (no early mistakes learning a new system), continuity of care and value of medical school training.Dr. David H Chan wrote:John, can you recommend me to community practices you know who haveI think it's important to think about the relative context of how these systems are installed, supported and used.
successfully deployed VistA as an EMR? I would very much love to learn from
them and see if VistA has a role to play in Canada.
While some family practice or GP are operationally connected with large health care organizations and thus can use the systems deployed by those organizations (which includes the services of a multi-person professional IT staff), many, if not the majority, are not so connected.
This is indeed the challenge for VISTA, which has a heritage in the large entity world. Can it make or even should it make the transition?
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