Computerworld on OpenVista health care software

 From the Department of Veterans Affairs 1985 to 1996 and now HIPPA
compliant medical office records software to Linux based OpenVista:
Frank Hayes simplifies it all.
http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/healthcare/story/0,10801,103570,00.html

acronym:
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture

Sourceforge's OpenVista summary: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista

All about it from WorldVista.org
http://www.worldvista.org/openvista/
They use OpenOffice and Mozilla on Linux.
A wiki: http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Main_Page
How to install it:
http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Installation_How_To_VistA_GT.M_Linux
Needs to be configured. Options from clinics to large general hospitals:
http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=VistA_Packages_Overview

... and of course, it runs on M[UMPS]
MUMPS By Example, © Ed de Moel, 1995-2005
http://www.jacquardsystems.com/Examples/
M[UMPS] is a database, but NOT a relational database.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Also, M ( or M[UMPS] ) appears to NOT be the mathematician's parallel
sparse matrix solver MUMPS which began in 1996:
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw50/amestoy.html

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Received on Mon Aug 1 13:01:05 2005