Re: [openhealth] Re: [os-wg] U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System

2005-07-25 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
Ignacio, This question would best be handled by one of the hardhats subscribers. I know that the San Francisco VAMC is quite large...and bed count isn't a good indicator of their complexity as the VA has nearly doubled its workload without increasing its budget in the last several years wh

[openhealth] Re: [os-wg] U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System

2005-07-25 Thread Ignacio Valdes
How large are these VA's? Like how many beds/clinical encounters per year, etc? -- IV On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:18:43 -0700 "Kamerick, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The San Francisco VA has a staff of 40+ technical people dedicated >to > the care and feeding of the local Vista system. >

Re: [openhealth] Re: Article on VistA in today's New York Times

2005-07-25 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
VistA-Office EHR has all the functionality that is in the FOIA release of VistA which is what OpenVistA is based on. What is different about it is that it has VA specific information removed and simplified patient registration and several other "modifications". cheers, Joseph K.S. Bhaskar wr

Re: [openhealth] Re: Article on VistA in today's New York Times

2005-07-25 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Nandalal -- Unfortunately, I don't know enough to answer your questions except that VistA Office is more suited to a practice whereas VistA/OpenVistA is more suited to a hospital. For more information, you should ask your questions on the list [EMAIL PROTECTED] (go to http://sourceforge.net/proje

Re: [openhealth] Re: Article on VistA in today's New York Times

2005-07-25 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Bhaskar, Thank you for the clarification. But i need to know about the number of modules available in the Open Vista, and the different "versions". What is Vista Office? Is it suitable for a hospital or more for a single physician's practice? What is the best version to setup in a large hospital

Re: [openhealth] Re: Article on VistA in today's New York Times

2005-07-25 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Nandalal -- The installation of VistA is actually *extremely* simple if you start with OpenVistA SemiVivA or OpenVistA VivA (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). What is complicated is the configuration of VistA post-installation. There are attempts to simplify it (e.g., Kevin Toppenberg