In the decade since they were made a cornerstone of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, electronic health records (EHRs) have become omnipresent in the US health system. EHRs enable healthcare providers to keep track of their patients’ medical data and share it with other authorized parties.
VistA, an open source EHR solution developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is a highly rated and free alternative to expensive, proprietary EHR software. The State of North Carolina saved millions of dollars by choosing VistA, says K.S. Bhaskar, president of database company (and VistA implementer) YottaDB, in his Lightning Talk at All Things Open 2019, "VistA on Linux: A complete FOSS stack for electronic health records."
What is really good here is that government is reusing a government system already developed using taxpayer dollars. It should be mandatory for any government!
Watch the 5 min talk at https://opensource.com/article/20/1/vista-open-source-ehr-software
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#^State saves millions with open source EHR
In the decade since they were made a cornerstone of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, electronic health records (EHRs) have become omnipresent in the US health system. EHRs enable healthcare providers to keep track of their patients’ medical data and share it with other authorized parties.