Open Source Medical

[Jeffry Smith]

>From another forum, I got reminded of a fairly large Open Source
project - VISTA, the VA's medical records system.  More at:

http://www.hardhats.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista
http://www.va.gov/vdl/

It's good enough to win awards - Harvard's Innovations Award
(http://www.innovations.va.gov/innovations/docs/HarvardNewsRelease.pdf)

It's also being used literally around the world, from VA to DoD, to
hospitals around the US, to Nigeria, Cairo (Egypt that is), Uganda,
and American Samoa.

The other thing that struck me was the history of the software
(starting back in 1977), and how they had to work to collaborate -
http://www.hardhats.org/history/hardhats.html


We return you to your regular flamefests now.

jeff