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Thanks Mike, it looks good to me. Is the live CD available for download?
Mike Baker wrote:
> This was in fact my plan, to give a brief history because that helps
> to explain how the software was developed and why it encompasses so
> much configuration just to get a system installed and ready to be
> used.
>
> Then give a very brief demonstration of the software from the live CD,
> using both the terminal and the windows client software running under
> wine. Any thing beyond that will be overwhelming for me and most
> certainly boring to anyone not involved in health care.
>
> My main purpose in doing this at all is to somehow give something back
> to this group. I have learned a lot by reading posts from this group
> and I have used things I learned here at my job where I am moving the
> VA towards using Linux and other open source software. I also am
> proud of the software the VA has produced and would like to see it
> considered and promoted when computer professionals are asked for
> opinions on medical records software.
>
> On 9/7/07, Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.org> wrote=
> :
>> Yesterday Stanly Long arranged a meeting with Mike Baker of the VA
>> Clinic here in Anchorage to discuss his presentation of the Veterans
>> Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA). Stanly
>> invited Doug MacLean and me along, and we all got together in Mike's
>> office about 1230. We spent about an hour listening and asking questions
>> along with a demonstration of the Windows interface to the system by
>> Rich Moran (not sure of the last name).
>>
>> The VA-VistA (to distinguish it from the Johnny-come-lately's use of the
>> name) is a very large body of free (as in freedom) software that has
>> been under development for well over 20 years. Thus, a single Friday
>> night presentation can hardly cover this important and timely move by
>> the VA to make VistA freely available as free software to the world
>> (Mike specifically mentioned Mexico as one of the adopters).
>>
>> Thus, I suggest Mike be asked to make his presentation a very brief over
>> view covering the history, platforms, availability, and perhaps a
>> demonstration of the live CD. The demonstration of the Windows interface
>> was interesting, but I would rather keep focus on the free software for
>> the initial presentation.
-- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Debian/GNU Linux Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm "etch" Testing dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska User Number 269482 Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service. "Seth" 186667 --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Mon Sep 10 00:16:29 2007
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