Join now
Log in

❖ Browsing media by libreplanet

← newer older →

WorldVistA EHR version of the Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record

Hosted by Nancy Anthracite.

Summary

WorldVistA EHR is a slightly modified version of the Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record, VistA. VistA is currently in the process of being replaced by Oracle Cerner by the VA, but implementation of the new system is currently on hold because it is not performing up to expectations. Meanwhile, VistA is in use in many places internationally, with the largest implementation in the country of Jordan. The largest implementation in the U.S. is at Central Regional Hospital, a state mental health hospital in North Carolina. It will fall upon the free software community to keep this comprehensive free software EHR available in the future.

Biography

Nancy Anthracite, MD is an internal medicine physician working in an occupational health clinic as her occupation and president of WorldVistA as her volunteer avocation. She became aware of VistA and devoted to keeping VistA free software since 1999 and is surrounded by like-minded volunteers with the same goal. She became CMO of WorldVistA in 2007 and president in 2009.

Audio-only version

Added

1 year ago

Tagged with

charting-the-course · libreplanet-conference · lp2023 · LibrePlanet · LibrePlanet 2023 · FSF · LibrePlanet 2023 video · video

License

CC BY-SA 4.0

Download


This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

libreplanet.org

LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free.

gnu.org/important

We do not advocate "open source".

That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

gnu.org/not-open-source

Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

gnu.org/gnu-begin

In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

gnu.org/gnu-and-linux

The views of the speaker may not represent the Free Software Foundation. The Foundation supports the free software cause and freedom to share, and basic freedoms in the digital domain, but has no position on other political issues.