[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[Doug Phillips]

On Oct 6, 9:31 am, SeanOBanion <s... at obanion.us> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 9:11 am, Doug Phillips <dphil... at netscape.net> wrote:
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> > 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!
>
> > > > [...]
>
> > > > 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).
>
> > > > 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.
>
> > > >    -Ken
>
> > > 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.
>
> > Huh? Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you hear.
>
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
>
> > I find it odd that "one of the most widely used EHRs in the world" is
> > so misunderstood, especially in this group.- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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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

And I don't understand your reply. The post to which I replied and all
of those quoted were about the VA, ergo VistA; CHCS was not mentioned
once. If you read the history you'll find that the VistA code-base
split four ways: VistA, CHCS, RPMS and MUSTI. CHCS is (afaik) the only
variant that is incompatible with the others. With The DoD's AHLTA
dead, CHCS should finally be brought back into synch.

With VistA costing as little as one-tenth as much as commercial
packages to implement (see the previous wiki link and its references),
has and is gaining world-wide support, is scalable from the small
private practice to the largest care providers in the world (both
private and government), with specialized add-ons being developed as
needed and it costs $.00 to obtain, it looks to me like VistA has some
strong legs. I don't see a good future for the commercial packages.