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Stimulus effect is anybody's guess at this point

Nobody knows for sure how this whole stimulus business is going to shake out, but that hasn't stopped prognosticators from prognosticating or pundits from...punditing? On Monday, Allscripts-Misys

VistA is powerful, but is it adaptable?

The lead in a Federal Computer Week story pretty well sums up the conundrum: "Is VistA a diva in disguise?" The open-source EMR at the heart of the Department of Veterans Affairs' health IT strategy

Vendors take to the highways to promote EHRs

Remember the "EHR Stimulus Tour"--the campaign led by EHR vendor Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions and seven other big IT firms that attempted to educate half a million U.S. physicians about the

Story claims proprietary EMRs could 'screw up' health reform

Washington Monthly, an influential magazine among left-leaning, inside-the-Beltway types, offers a bombshell of an indictment of major EMR vendors in its July cover story, provocatively titled, "Code

SPOTLIGHT: WV turns to open-source EMR

The seven state-run medical facilities in West Virginia have likely saved taxpayers millions of dollars by adopting Medsphere Systems' OpenVista EMR, a commercialized version of the VA's open-source