This is the first article I am writing from HIMSS09. I am here on a press pass provided by LinuxMedNews. I am focusing on FOSS here at HIMSS. I am, by tribal law, required to make a certain amount of Star Wars analogies when blogging and I recently categorized HIMSS as “the empire” with regards […]
Tag: VistA
Defending VA-VistA
I was heavily quoted in a recent article in Government Health IT entitled VA’s health IT gamble. In it, I present the case that the current IT centralization efforts within the VA are damaging to VistA and therefore the VA’s ability to deliver quality care. From the article: “Historically, each hospital hired programmers to solve […]