The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on the 1st of April a new initiative to convert their current Electronic Medical Record (EMR) installations to the full open source version, in an effort to for private companies to collaborate on the application.
April 1, 2011 - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) aimed at forming an Open Source community around its ground-breaking VistA (Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture) electronic health record (EHR) system. When award is made under a planned RFP for a custodial agent, VA will commit to deploy the Open Source version of VistA to all of its facilities, and will contribute all non-security essential modifications to the product it makes or pays for directly to the Open Source custodian. VA will also commit to participate in Open Source VistA with other public and private sector participants.
The entire press release can be read here: http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2075
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