‘The 20th WorldVistA Community Meeting got under way in Tempe, Ariz., Thursday, with the looming challenge of “meaningful” use very much on the minds of most of the proponents of open-source healthcare information technology who gathered for it.
A goal of the community is to promote the use of the VistA clinical IT system outside the Veterans Affairs Department where it was created. But the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus law, with its requirement that electronic health-record systems must be certified against new and still uncertain federal standards, poses the same opportunities and challenges for open-source systems as it does for the vendors and users of the more conventional “proprietary” software systems.”
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare, 15 January 2010
