“The Veterans Affairs Department is at work on the next-generation of VistA, its 20-plus year-old electronic medical record system, which is often praised by users but considered a headache to planners working to bring VA health systems fully into the Internet age.
The new system – dubbed Aviva – is designed to be Web-enabled, modular in design and capable of easily exchanging health records with other EMRs and organizations using standards built for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).”
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News, 10 March 2010
