Comments on: The Muddled EHR landscape http://blog.linuxchixla.org/2009/03/09/the-muddled-ehr-landscape/ Be Polite, Be Helpful. A community for and by women interested in F/LOSS. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:59:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lobal http://blog.linuxchixla.org/2009/03/09/the-muddled-ehr-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-55 lobal Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:27:44 +0000 http://blog.linuxchixla.org/?p=169#comment-55 To reply #2. God help us if they do. Yes, WalmMrt runs pharmacies and understands that business - which is pretty cut and dried, procedurally. The nuances of actual clinical work flows is a bit out of their league. The history of EHR-deinstallations is a testimony to EHRs that were built outside the clinical process. Don't even get me started on the proprietary nature of this plan, either. I think it's time folks start lobbying congress to make it illegal to put health records in a proprietary format. To reply #2. God help us if they do. Yes, WalmMrt runs pharmacies and understands that business – which is pretty cut and dried, procedurally. The nuances of actual clinical work flows is a bit out of their league. The history of EHR-deinstallations is a testimony to EHRs that were built outside the clinical process. Don’t even get me started on the proprietary nature of this plan, either. I think it’s time folks start lobbying congress to make it illegal to put health records in a proprietary format.

]]> By: Sharon http://blog.linuxchixla.org/2009/03/09/the-muddled-ehr-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Sharon Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:31:35 +0000 http://blog.linuxchixla.org/?p=169#comment-54 According to a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/" rel="nofollow">PBS Newhour</a> story, Walmart is now officially in the EHR business. Is this the end of all hope? <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/jan-june09/walmart_03-11.html" rel="nofollow">Wal-Mart to Sell Digital Health Record Systems to Doctors</a> According to a PBS Newhour story, Walmart is now officially in the EHR business. Is this the end of all hope?

Wal-Mart to Sell Digital Health Record Systems to Doctors

]]> By: Sharon http://blog.linuxchixla.org/2009/03/09/the-muddled-ehr-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Sharon Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:20:09 +0000 http://blog.linuxchixla.org/?p=169#comment-52 So what is the status of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Information_Systems_and_Technology_Architecture" rel="nofollow">VistA</a>, the Veterans EHR that was open sourced in, what, 2001? Wouldn't an already used by the government, free, and tested EHR software get some priority? /Sharon So what is the status of VistA, the Veterans EHR that was open sourced in, what, 2001?

Wouldn’t an already used by the government, free, and tested EHR software get some priority?

/Sharon

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