[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[SeanOBanion]

On Oct 6, 9:11 am, Doug Phillips <dphil... at netscape.net> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 3:13 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 3, 12:32 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:04:26 PM UTC-7, Forster, Michael wrote:
> > > > Certain healthcare entities, private public mixed, rely on VMS. Ouch!
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> > > Please see some of my posts from earlier this
> > > year regarding Cerner and VMS.  The other large
> > > EMR vendor is Epic, and they're entirely O/S
> > > agnostic (anything that Cache runs on is good
> > > enough for them).
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> > > At this point, VMS has no future in the healthcare
> > > industry whatsoever.  Most big users are on AIX.
> > > Smaller users are on other things, RHEL on Intel
> > > H/W being prominent.
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> > >    -Ken
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> > Right now the VA is tied bound and gagged to an old version of Mumps
> > which runs pretty much every VA.  Some contracts have been put out,
> > but, from what I have heard, the existing Mumps code cannot be ported
> > to Cache.
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> Huh? Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you hear.
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>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
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> I find it odd that "one of the most widely used EHRs in the world" is
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Since VistA is not CHCS, what's your point?

VistA is for the Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics
CHCS is for DOD hospitals and clinics, generally on base (but not
Theater )


Sean