VistA is designed to run on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Can we expect to see a future EHS program developed for another operating system?
Not known at this moment. There is discussion on going open source in future: VistA-Office EHR will be released to work with the Windows operating system. It also requires a license for Cache, which is the combined programming language and data base management system with which VistA-Office EHR is built. Dr. Stan Saiki Jr., director of the joint Defense Department/VA Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui (meaning partnership) at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, said this partnership resolved the license fee issue last year with the release of its Hui OpenVista enterprise software. Instead of using MUMPS Caché, Saiki said, Hui OpenVista runs on open-source MUMPS called Greystone Technology M from the Sanchez Computer Associates division of Fidelity National Financial, in Jacksonville, Fla. The complete Hui OpenVista package runs on the open-source Linux operating system software, which provides users with a complete, free and sophisticated EHR system, Saiki said. Saiki said Paci
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