The key news that I heard (I missed the part about Katrina), was that Cynthia Wark (speaking for CMS) said that VistOffice will be beta tested before release. And that beta test is expected to take 15 months.
CMS is concerned that any product they release be a "proper" program. For example, they wrote code that allows prescriptions to be printed to paper/fax (which would be good enough for me)--but there was concern that this was not truly electronic prescribing (ie. where the prescription was transmitted electronically all the way to the pharmacy's computer). So that is one hold up. Plus, the playing field regarding expectations seems to be changing. For example, when the CMS project, there was no central government task force. Now it seems that there is an IT agency. I'm a little blurry on the details. But release requires approval by a long chain of command. With all this bureaucracy, I wonder if the government can be nimble enough to actually get a product out. In the interum, some of the code for VistAOffice will be incorporated into the VA's code stream, so some of it may be available from the standard patch stream. The ability print out prescriptions is apparently one such patch. I am especially interested in this one. And if I get it working, I will let this board know. Kevin On 9/17/05, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't you hear? WorldVistA has a bid to acquire Oracle and release > all their code as open source. :-| > > === > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Education is a progressive discovery > of our own ignorance." > --Will Durant > > > On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Mark Street wrote: > > > Could someone post a synopsis of the Community Call yesterday? I > > was up to my > > neck in burning oil and couldn't get away.... damn Windows 2000 > > servers.... > > > > -- > > Mark Street, RHCE > > http://www.oswizards.com > > -- > > Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 > > GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > > Download > > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
