Additional Thoughts on the Monthly Presentation: Mike Baker and the VA Software

There is a VA site that provides a little insight to this ball of wax:

http://www.va.gov/vista_monograph/

<quote>
When development began on the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program
(DHCP) in the early 1980s, information systems were in their infancy in
VA medical facilities and emphasized primarily hospital-based
activities. DHCP grew rapidly and is used by many private and public
health care facilities throughout the United States and the world.
Although DHCP represented the total automation activity at most VA
medical centers in 1985, DHCP is now only one part of the overall
information resources at the local facility level. VISTA incorporates
all of the benefits of DHCP as well as including the rich array of other
information resources that are becoming vital to the day-to-day
operations at VA medical facilities. It represents the culmination of
DHCP's evolution and metamorphosis into a new, open system,
client-server based environment that takes full advantage of commercial
solutions, including those provided by Internet technologies.
</quote>

Yes, I note the VA was ahead of us in using the acronym "DHCP".

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