Over the years, the VA VistA systems has
been adopted by many healthcare organizations and tailored to meet
their particular needs. Some examples of these include:
VistA & American Samoa—The
American Samoan government successfully implemented the VistA system in the LBJ Tropical Medical Center.
VistA & D.C. Government—The
D.C. government successfully implemented the VistA system in several of
their major outpatient clinics. Additional sites are planning to use VistA, as funding permits.
VistA & Oklahoma
State Veterans Homes - Oklahoma is
moving forward with plans to acquire and implement VistA/CPRS in their
seven state-run veterans healthcare
facilities. VistA has already been successfully implemented in four sites.
VistA Office EHR & HHS/CMS - 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.
VistA & National Hansen's Disease Centers—The
National Hansen's Disease Programs (NHDP), based in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, is primarily responsible for inpatient and outpatient
care and treatment of Hansen's disease (leprosy). In
addition to the clinical programs in Baton Rouge,
the NHDP also coordinates outpatient care for Hansen's disease patients
throughout the U.S.
at BPHC grant funded clinics as well as private physician offices. They
brought up the Vista system in 1989 and updated
their infrastructure in 2000. They have a patient database size
of 16,082 patients.
VistA & Indian Health Service (IHS)—VA
and IHS have a long history of working jointly on health information
technology. IHS has a system known as RPMS
that has its roots in the VA VistA system.
VistA &
Department of Defense (DoD)—VA
and DoD have a long history of working
together on health information technology projects.
DoD has a system known
as CHCS that has its roots in the VA VistA system.
VistA & State and Local
Governments—VHA staff regularly provide
information on VistA and arrange for demonstrations of the system to
state, city, and county governments across the country that are
interested in evaluating and possibly adopting the system.
VistA & International Healthcare Communities—A number of countries have either implemented VistA or have expressed an
interest in evaluating and possibly implementing the system. These
include: Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Panama, and others.
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
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