What's good for the VA will be even better for the balance of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. A "reengineered" VistA 2.0 Open Source is the quickest and most efficient path to the establishment of a "standard" for health information technology, adoption. How else is U.S. healthcare to create an inter operable, nationwide, health information database; a single, interchangeable, electronic medical record and/or health record; and for national, even international, health information and insurance exchanges?
Industry can get creative and find ways to make a buck facilitating that "public good" or leave it to the non-profits to get done...either way, open source VistA 2.0 (reengineered VistA, nor enhanced Mumps or whatever it's called) is coming, whether or not it's the VA who brings it or not.
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