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...Oct. 17, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 20,001 Replies: 2
