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Physicans Rank VA-CPRS #1
According tothis article physicians have ranked VA-CPRS as #1. Great news. But while it is ranked #1 private-sector companies such asAstronaut (Disclaimer: I own the company) have further developed VA-CPRS and made it much better and even more feature full than what the VA has. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - August 27, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Astronaut Achieves 14 Consecutive Months of VistA Features and Fixes
One of the most prolific VistA developers on Earth < a href= " http://astronautvista.com " > Astronaut, LLC < /a > has just completed its 14th consecutive month of releasing new VistA features that are clinically tested and in production. Details of the latest release are < a href= " http://astronautvista.com/news/astronaut-cprs-07-25-2016-hiring-new-features " > here < /a > . < br > (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 26, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Commission Wants to Throw Out VistA (Again)
A VistA commission report can be found here. Its text and conclusion are of the 'seen it before' variety multiple times in VistA's long history. Maybe the bureaucrats will finally succeed this time at murdering VistA after so many past attempts. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 12, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Dysfunction and Sabotage: Why Large Hospital EHR Costs So Much
Years ago I read the cannon of the classic medical book "House of God" by Samuel Shem which reads: "...the House of God was sad and sick and cynical...like all our doings in the House..." At first, before I had worked in an actual hospital I thought the book itself was sick and cynical. After working in an actual hospital I re-read the book. I then found it hilarious for its uncomfortable truths, and did not think it was sick or cynical enough. Therein likes the crux of the matter with regard to very expensive large hospital EHR's. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - June 22, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

OpenEMR 4.2.2 is released
The OpenEMR community has released version 4.2.2. This new version is 2014 ONC Certified as a Modular EHR. OpenEMR 4.2.2 has numerous new features including 30 language translations, a new modern user interface, and fully supports PHP7 and the most recent versions of MySQL and MariaDB. OpenEMR 4.2.2 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - May 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

OpenEMR 4.2.1 is released
The OpenEMR community has released version 4.2.1. This new version is 2014 ONC Certified as a Modular EHR. OpenEMR 4.2.1 has numerous new features including 30 language translations and a patient flow board. OpenEMR 4.2.1 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 14, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Interoperability Fears
When you get right down to it, lots of individuals and organizations fear interoperability. I am finding a great deal of resistance to the notion of the real deal of single sign-on longitudinal type record across organizations interoperability. Most want to only emit little squirts of electronic data and only under pressure to do so. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 14, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Major Hole in eRX
Cancellation of medication orders already sent to the Pharmacy by eRX is only possible with less than 2% of pharmacies. The SCRIPT standard allows for change/cancel and you can possibly send it with the ordering software but less than 2% of pharmacies can receive the order. Therefore for most pharmacies it can only be done by laboriously calling the pharmacy, being put on hold, giving the information and waiting for them to do it. We tell the patient to not fill what was incorrect and let the order expire. It is not optimal. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - April 14, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

AMIA CIS-WG Approves Patient Demographic Interoperability
The American Medical Informatics Association Computer Information Systems Working Group has approved a white paper calling for implementation of basic patient demographic interoperability using IETF vCardDAV across all HIT applications including practice management. Surprisingly this mostly doesn't exist right now and most have to register and re-register patients basic demographic information manually. It goes to the working group steering committee now for further approval. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 13, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Astronaut releases drag and drop patient registration, to lead industry effort
Astronaut which develops a Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) distribution writes: Astronaut has released Astronaut-CPRS with vCardDAV demographics support. The new client allows drag and drop patient demographic registration as well as vCardDAV export of patient demographic information. Patients can send their information from a smartphone or email for quick and easy registration. Astronaut will lead an effort to make this interoperability industry-wide across, scheduling, billing, ordering portals and more. Complete article here: Newsletter registration here. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source ...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - November 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Calendar Synchronization in OpenEMR
With the advancements in technology on a day to day life, the time to search for calendar, search for a date rolling the papers and marking the dates is reduced. Nowadays, accessing a handy online calendar through electronic gadgets and scheduling the tasks for the day or planning for a whole year has become very simple. Online Calendar hence holds a major role in adding tasks, dropping appointments, arranging meeting and planning other functionality over one’s personal comfort and concern. Generally within a healthcare practice, the patient schedules an appointment in prior to the visiting date with the concerned physic...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Interoperability Fatal Flaw
Another local hospital closed its doors. This points out a major flaw in interoperability schemes. They are not resistant to business failure. The very flawed assumption is that medical entities last forever. The premise is that others get these little carefully regulated squirts of information from these entities. What if that entity no longer exists? All continuity lost, all data lost. All of these laws and regulations and standards and years spent on all these schemes are built on that flawed assumption. Now what? (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - July 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

OpenEMR 4.2.0 is released
The OpenEMR community has released version 4.2.0. This new version will be 2014 ONC Certified as a Modular EHR. OpenEMR 4.2.0 has numerous new features including 26 language translations and Patient Form improvements such as E-signing. OpenEMR 4.2.0 can be downloaded from the OpenEMR Project website at www.open-emr.org . Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release. (Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News)
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - February 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Orthanc - Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server for Medical Imaging In Hospitals
The amount of medical images that are generated, analyzed and exchanged by hospitals is dramatically increasing. Medical imaging is indeed the first step to the treatment of more and more illnesses, such as cancers or cardiovascular diseases. In turn, the data management of clinical images and the administration of the computer network of a medical imaging department imply continuously growing technological challenges. Tasks such as autorouting between imaging modalities, exchanging data between clinical departments or hospitals, or anonymizing images are still hard to achieve in practice. This is a direct consequence of ...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - February 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

A Modest Interoperability Challenge
Demographics. That's it. Just demographics. Copy and Paste. You don't even need to transmit them even though that would be okay. Mandate that every application generate an XML page with name, DOB, address, phone that can be copied and pasted and interpreted correctly into every other medical application. Just works, nearly every time. Surely these huge corporations and governments and lawyers and regulators with their millions and billions can manage just this one insignificant thing that is actually useful? Right? Right? This is NOT CCR/CCD. Just demographics. No gold plating. Positive attitude everyone! (Source: ...
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 25, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news