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Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? by cduzz on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:47PM (#42630339)
The United States Government is replacing the open source, internally written medical records system, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA, with Epic. [edit] Or is it cerner?

I'm sure it's going to be way way way better.

[edits: cerner not epic?; added another way to emphasize how much better it'll be.]

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Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? by hlieberman on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:51PM (#42630370)
They actually cancelled the migration because the commercial EMR was getting people killed.
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Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? by vages on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:21PM (#42630540)
Do you have any links for this? Tragic that people got killed, but even more so if the same software was at the core. And I sure hope it was cancelled, if that was the case.
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Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? by hlieberman on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @11:08AM (#42635612)
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/oig-report-vha-finds-m...

There’s a link to the OIG reports themselves. It’s almost certainly not the software itself, but the way it was configured and rolled out. Cerner is the market leader for EHRs, so I highly doubt it’s intrinsically flawed; just so configurable it’s easy to cut yourself on the edges.

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Re:When will we fix the tools that run the world? by rawgabbit on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:49AM (#42631368)
It is Cerner. They are relaunching.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/02/va-sets-sight...

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