Can An Open Source Electronic Health Record Ever Be Ready For Prime-Time?

Moukheiber, Zina. "Can An Open Source Electronic Health Record Ever Be Ready For Prime-Time?" Forbes, August 29, 2012.
 
From the article: "Considered one of the best EHRs,VistA’s creation dates back to the 1970s, when a band of programmers at VA hospitals persisted in developing the EHR, even after VA bureaucrats shut their project down. The VA eventually adopted it, and it serves as the backbone of its 163 hospitals and 800 clinics—the single largest health care system in the U.S. Political red tape, however, prevented innovation over the years….To modernize VistA,VA chief information officer Roger Baker and chief technology officer Peter Levin made a smart decision—and probably the only sensible one. They turned to open source developers." Read more