Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Veteran's Administration does something right

The Veterans Administration is incompetent in many areas.  They shouldn't be anywhere near construction management (see my posting about the Aurora, Colorado VA hospital where they are spending over $2 billion building a hospital with only 180 beds).

However, they have an amazing health information system called VistA.  Most of it is open-source software, allowing a more robust system. There is a totally open-source version called WorldVista, which is used by many non-VA hospitals, even in other countries.  Here is one overview of the system architecture I found.

Meanwhile, the DoD is preparing to build a new proprietary healthcare information system at a cost of over $10 billion.  Why can't they just adopt VistA and create their own additional modules as necessary?  A new massive computer system designed by the government sounds like the very definition of fiasco.

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