Over the years, the VA VistA systems has
been adopted to some degree by a number of Federal government
healthcare organizations and tailored to meet
their particular needs. Some examples of these include:
Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) & VistA -
The Veterans
Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) is a
rich, automated environment that supports day-to-day operations at
hundreds of local Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care
facilities across the country.
Indian
Health Service (IHS) & RPMS - VA
and IHS have a long history of working jointly on health information
technology. IHS has a system known as the
Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS)
that has its roots in the VA VistA system.
HHS/CMS
& VistA Office EHR - The
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),
and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) collaborating on an
initiative to transfer VistA, the VHA’s
Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) system, to the private physician
office setting. Targeted for release July 2005, the VistA-Office EHR
system will be available to individual practices and the EHR industry.
Department of
Defense (DoD)
& CHCS - VA
and DoD have a long history of working
together on health information technology projects.
The DoD Military Health
System has a widely used system known
as the Composite Health Care
System (CHCS) that has its roots in the VA VistA system.
For
more information about VistA
and the OpenVistA project go to http://worldvista.sourceforge.net/welcome.html
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is deeply grateful to Source Forge
for providing us with our place
in cyberspace for this web site.
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