Andy Oram is a columnist over at O’Reilly Radar and recently blogged about the VA’s VistA software and how it is being used to revolutionize healthcare. He is specifically looking at a book written by Phillip Longman entitled Best Care Anywhere and provocatively subtitled, “Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours.”
Healthcare has been gathering interest in the public eye, especially with the push through Congress of new healthcare legislation. It has also been gathering increasing interest from the IT sector – and articles such as this one are a reflection of that increasing interest. I’d encourage you to take a few minutes to read through Oram’s entire article if you are a techie, and if not to read through the first half in which he covers some of the less technical features of VistA that are revolutionizing healthcare.
You can also visit the official open source page for VistA here.
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