DSS, Inc., a leading provider of software development and support of VistA, today announced the launch of their newly redesigned vxVistA.org website intended to serve as a collaboration hub for all VistA users within a hospital or health network, including clinical and administrative staff, new adopters, C-suite executives and developers. “The vxVista.org extension hub incorporates [...]
DSS, Inc. Launches New vxVistA Extension Hub to Support the Department of Veterans Affairs Open Source VistA Application
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Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys plc, the world’s first fully open source, standards based health information exchange solutions provider, has succeeded in passing the stringent IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) testing protocols at the Chicago Connectathon. This extends MOSS success in passing all the IHE tests for the last 4 years. [...]
IBM Donates Portion of Blue Spruce Code: Enables Smarter COPD Healthcare Solutions
October 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
IBM today announced that they are donating new software code to help health care and other industries work on shared content in real-time, on the Web. The code is from IBM Project Blue Spruce and will be donated to the Dojo Foundation’s Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb). Developed in the IBM labs, Project Blue Spruce [...]
PHYAURA Releases Open Source EHR Download and Provides an Online Community for Healthcare Providers
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
PHYAURA, LLC has announced the launch of the community edition of PHYAURA EHR, a free and open source EHR product. The community edition allows all healthcare practitioners in the United States to document clinical notes, schedule office visits, and bill for medical services, all without any vendor lock in. PHYAURA has also established a new [...]
VA Launches Open Source Custodian with new Website
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the completion of an important milestone on its joint path with the Department of Defense to create a single electronic health record system for service members and Veterans. OSEHRA (pronounced “oh- sarah”), the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, has begun operations and will serve as the central [...]
Acquisition Alert: Phyaura, LLC – An Open Source HIT Firm Acquires EHR Live
May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Phyaura, LLC, a healthcare technology firm, has acquired EHR Live, LLC, a West Palm Beach company that shares PHYAURA’s focus on developing ‘open source’ Electronic Health Records (EHR) solutions in full compliance with government regulations. “With this acquisition, PHYAURA increases its user base and provides current EHR Live clients access to our complete ‘meaningful use’ [...]
VA Begins Process to Create Open Source Electronic Health Record
April 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Cooper Green Mercy Hospital Selects OpenVista System to Improve Patient Care and Achieve Meaningful Use
January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Image via CrunchBase Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open-source healthcare enterprise solutions, today announced a new contract with Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., for implementation of the OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) and associated clinical transformation services. The county-owned medical center will take advantage of OpenVista’s comprehensive clinical support and Medsphere’s [...]
Medsphere’s OVID Makes VistA-derived Solutions Java-ready
May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a new white paper entitled “From MUMPS to Java,” Medsphere Systems Corporation today provided both explanation and application for a significant technological development. Subtitled “OVID Unleashes Power of Open-source Health IT,” the paper details how the new OpenVista Interface Domain (OVID) leverages the proven power and stability of VistA to facilitate an ecosystem oriented [...]
Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital Implements OpenVista EHR to Promote Patient Safety
March 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Silver Hill Hospital and Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced the successful implementation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record solution at the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital. Silver Hill selected OpenVista — a comprehensive, open-source EHR proven to significantly improve clinical effectiveness — as an affordable and fully integrated enabler of real-time clinical information in a paperless [...]
