[telemedicine] VA EMR Could be Model for Nationwide System

[Medical Informatics News]

Twenty-year-old software developed by the Department of Veterans
Affairs could serve as the low-cost building block of a nationwide electronic health care record (EHR) system
President Bush wants officials to deploy within the next decade, according to health management experts. From
Federal Computer Week

This open-source software, based on the VA’s Veterans Health
Information Systems Technology Architecture (Vista), could also become the basis of affordable EHR systems
worldwide, said Maury Pepper, a St. Louis-based computer consultant. Pepper serves as chairman of
WorldVista, an organization dedicated to making health care technology more
affordable worldwide with systems based on Vista.


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