From: Anurag anurag@bsd.miki.eu.org To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:28:01 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Hospital Software Sometime on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:39:44AM +0530, Rony Bill said:

Hello All,

Yesterday I was at a hospital to oversee a patient's discharge. It took a whole day for them to simply discharge the patient. What was surprising was that even though the hospital had computers in practically all departments, they didn't seem to maintain records

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Excerpt: VistA: VistA is the largest integrated hospital software package in the world, and hospitals and clinics in many countries depend on it to manage such things as patient records, prescriptions, lab results, and other medical information. The use of VistA has been proven to improve patient treatment outcomes in many ways, including by reducing medical errors and by ensuring that clinicians can easily access all clinically relevant patient information. The U.S. government originally developed VistA for use in veterans' hospitals, so it is public domain. This means you already own VistA, no matter which country you call home.

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