Dave Enjoys » opensource http://www.daveenjoys.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:23:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Andy Oram, Healthcare, and VistA http://www.daveenjoys.com/2010/08/19/andy-oram-healthcare-and-vista/ http://www.daveenjoys.com/2010/08/19/andy-oram-healthcare-and-vista/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:52:05 +0000 davemackey http://www.daveenjoys.com/?p=1421 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, [...]]]> 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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Why would I suggest ScrewTurn as worth a turn or two? Well:

  • It depends on whether you are looking for a Windows based stack or a Linux based stack. There are lots of options out there for Linux based stacks – but for Windows there are far fewer.
  • As mentioned above its free, open source, and licensed under the well-known, widely utilized GPLv2.
  • ScrewTurn also seems to be under continuous development with regular releases and well supported forums…and its not some new project that just popped out of the woodwork – its been around for a while.
  • Its extremely easy to setup. Anyone who can learn how to purchase some shared hosting and use an FTP client can get ScrewTurn up and running within minutes.
  • It supports a good variety of databases (e.g. MSSQL and MySQL) but also allows for flat filesystem site creation (what I use on freewargamer). This makes setup/management even simpler and reduces the requirements in a shared host (which usually limit or don’t provide database access).
  • The UI is simple and easy to use. Its intuitive.
  • It has WYSIWYG editing of articles.
  • It supports Active Directory integration!

The list could go on – but check it out for yourself. Enjoy! (P.S. they recently released the final version of 3.0 which is pretty awesome).

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