Frank Pecaitis is vice president of sales and marketing for Medsphere Systems, a commercial provider of open source technology for the healthcare industry. The company’s OpenVista electronic health record system is a commercial implementation of the open source VistA electronic health record developed and used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
This year, Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas, became the first
community hospital in the country to adopt Open Source-based electronic
health records (EHR). The implementation reflects the emergence of Open
Source alternatives in healthcare applications as well as the growing
movement to computerize patient medical records to reduce costs and improve
patient care.
At Midland, these two trends culminated in the deployment of Medsphere
Systems' OpenVista, a Linux-based EHR platform with roots in the highly
acclaimed Open Source VistA system developed by the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs.
The software was installed on clustered HP servers running Red Hat Linux and
was phased in over a seven-month period at two hospital campuses in this city
of 95,000, located midway between El Paso and Fort Worth. The campuses are
linked by a dedicated high-speed Giga... (more)
Frank Pecaitis is vice president of sales and marketing for Medsphere Systems, a commercial provider of open source technology for the healthcare industry. The company’s OpenVista electronic health record system is a commercial implementation of the open source VistA electronic health record developed and used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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