[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[SeanOBanion]

On Oct 6, 11:59 am, Doug Phillips <dphil... at netscape.net> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 9:31 am, SeanOBanion <s... at obanion.us> wrote:
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> > 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!
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> > > > > [...]
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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?
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> > VistA is for the Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics
> > CHCS is for DOD hospitals and clinics, generally on base (but not
> > Theater )
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> > Sean
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> 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.
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> 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.- Hide quoted text -
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My humble apologies  - I hit the reply button without read the correct
quoted text...


Sean