DSS, Inc., the leading provider of software development and support of VistA, today announced that its vxVistA and vxMental Health Suite (MHS) have gone into production at University Behavioral Healthcare (UBHC), a division of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), with more than 800 users at 13 locations. UBHC is one [...]
University Behavioral Healthcare Announces Go-live of the DSS Mental Health EHR System
November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Enhances OpenVista® EHR System for Meaningful Use
September 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a pioneer in open-source healthcare enterprise solutions, today announced the generally available release of the enhanced OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) platform, which is currently being installed across the Medsphere client base. New OpenVista features enable doctors, nurses, technicians and other medical professionals to create their own views, dashboards and workflows enabling [...]
DSS, Inc. Achieves ARRA Certification by Drummond Group, Inc. for vxVistA as a Complete Inpatient EHR
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
DSS, Inc., a leading provider of software development, integration, project management, implementation and support of VistA, today announced its customizable vxVistA solution has achieved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) certification through Drummond Group, Inc. (DGI), as a complete inpatient electronic health record (EHR). Hospitals using vxVistA will now qualify for Meaningful Use, as is [...]
Harris Corporation Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering and Enterprise Support to Veteran Affairs’s VistA Imaging System
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing advanced software engineering and enterprise support to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging System. This multi-year contract was originally awarded to Harris in August 2008. The VistA [...]
DSS, Inc. Launches vxVistA.org Second Generation
August 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
DSS, Inc., a provider of software, integration, installation, project management, training, support and development of VistA and vxVistA, today announced the launch of vxVistA.org Second Generation, the latest version of its highly regarded open source collaboration environment. This update features new tools available to the vxVistA open source collaboration community that enhance the site’s management [...]
GlobalMedia’s CapSure Medical Imaging Software Validated for Use with DoD/VA VistA System
May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
GlobalMedia Group, LLC, announced today that its CapSure(R) Store and Forward DICOM image automation software has been validated for use within the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) PACS servers following rigorous testing of this solution within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic healthcare records (EHR) system. The CapSure and CONI(TM) Server [...]
San Diego Students Team With Carlsbad-Based Open-Source EHR Leader to Plan eHealth Records Implementation for Community Clinic
May 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open-source health IT solutions, today announced that students at the University of California, San Diego Extension Health Information Technology Program had successfully completed a capstone project focused on implementing an electronic health record system in a sample community clinic system. With an eye toward the burgeoning health IT [...]
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 [...]
VA and Kaiser Permanente Invite Veterans to Participate in Health Record Pilot Program
November 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente today announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human [...]
Listing of Current Open Source Health Care Projects Including EMR/EHR
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Open source projects created for use in health care and medical applications promise to significantly reduce costs and contribute efficiencies to health care organizations, according to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software. Using a well-known cost estimation model [...]
