The VA and VistA: A Role Model for Radical Improvement of Health...
summary
Argues that the VA’s VistA grew from an underground clinician hacker culture into the world’s leading integrated health IT, knitting 18,000 programs into a single system written in MUMPS and deployed with barcode med scanning that blocks wrong patient/wrong dose errors. Claims VistA’s analytics flagged the Vioxx safety signal years earlier, cites export to Jordan and Norway, and names Medsphere as a commercial installer while warning federal stimulus funding risks locking data into proprietary black boxes.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:20Quality and Healthcare
- 2:41What is Quality and Healthcare
- 3:19The Hardhats
- 4:26The First Electronic Medical Record
- 7:01George Timpson
- 7:35mumps
- 7:53Craig Theis
- 9:10The VAs Computer Division
- 9:36The VAs Computer Revolution
- 10:49Iranian Culture
- 11:30The Underground Railroad
- 15:57VistA
- 16:50Stimulus
- 20:31Expanding access to healthcare
- 29:02Is there an effort
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