LMN: Windows VistA Client Running on Linux

[Ignacio Valdes]

As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable 
medical errors which Free and Open Source electronic medical records 
software could reduce. A contender in this area is the Veterans 
Administration (VA) public domain VistA codebase and large community. 
In a major advance for FOSS in medicine, Joseph Dal Molin of 
WorldVistA reports success in getting the VA Computerized Patient 
Record System (CPRS) VistA client running on Linux using WINE and 
Crossover office. The CPRS client formerly ran only on the Microsoft 
Windows operating system and is widely deployed on thousands of 
workstations within the United States VA system. More details of this 
development and a screenshot can be found here:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1112336432/index_html