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Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

House IT stimulus bill lacks answer to key question

What could open source do with $6 billion this year in building an open, coherent, and scalable set of health care IT tools? Now what would you get if you just passed that money on to existing vendors? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Nationalism, Insurance Industry, VA, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-23

March of the mobile medical wonders

The danger in all this is that we wind up with incompatible systems costing far more than they should. But if that's a way station on the path to making this technology ubiquitous it's a price I'm willing to pay. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patient, Phone, Mobile, VA, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-09

First test arrives of Obama promise to transform health IT

Between them the military and veterans control one of the biggest pieces of IT infrastructure in the nation. Their choice could easily define the direction of health IT for everyone else. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Information Technology, Health Care, Standards, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Unwilling veterans of 9-11

In the victims and witnesses of 9-11 we have a group of people unique in our history. They are veterans in the most basic sense of the term -- they have been to war. But they are stuck in the same private health system the rest of us use. by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Viet-era vets support Iraq war PTSD claims

After the Vietnam War it took some veterans decades to get their PTSD acknowledged and treated. (Art by Shaun Mullen of Kikoshouse.) Medication, therapy and even religion can all help, but it's a lifetime condition. The memories last a lifetime. Many Vietnam-era veterans are...

Tags: Veteran, PTSD, VA, Government, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?

The U.S. Senate is finally getting on the Veterans Administration's VA case. Spurred by a class action suit which is now going to trial, Sen. Patty Murray has demanded the resignation of Dr. Ira Katz, the head of the agency's mental health wing. As...

Tags: Sen., U.S. Congress, Health Care, John McCain, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?

Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...

Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the market

The fiscal 2007 IT budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs was about $1.2 billion. The proposed budget for fiscal 2009, which starts in October, is $2.4 billion. That's a lot of IT. That should be very good news for open source. The VA's...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, VA, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights

President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its current state remains to be seen (fiscal 2008's budget isn't official), but directionally there are some key highlights....

Tags: Budget, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department Of Veteran Affair, VA, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Semiconductors, Security, Viruses And Worms, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Is the VA going proprietary?

The Veterans Administration has chosen a proprietary system from Cerner called PathNet to automate its laboratories. The same system was also chosen by the Department of Defense. This is a big loss for the VA's VistA system, on which WorldVistA is based. This makes it unlikely that...

Tags: Cerner Corp., VA, Veterans Administration, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Visual Accounts 2000-32 1.32.0.4 (Windows)

Powerful, simple, easy-to-use Accounting Software designed to save you time & money. VA makes doing your accounts so easy you will wonder how you managed without it. VA completely removes any need to learn ledger style accounting while still keeping the same level of accuracy & detail. VA has a...

Tags: Account, Accounting, JQL, VA, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Microsoft Windows, Finance, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-06-13

Virtual Administrator 2.1 (Windows)

From the developer: "Virtual Administrator is a rules-based monitoring system designed to ease and automate the management of complex systems. Its primary function is to ensure availability and performance of the disparate components that comprise a Siebel deployment. VA generates notifications and reactions in response to system events, and tracks...

Tags: Administrator, Performance, Siebel Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Recursive Technology, VA, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2002-11-29

Visual Access XP 1.3.12 (Windows)

From the developer: "Visual Access provides easy-to-use ad-hoc reporting and OLAP analysis from any ODBC data source. Mastering Microsoft Access is no longer necessary for complex querying and reporting from multi-user RDBMS systems. VA is merely a front-end reporting tool for Microsoft Access 2002. Users no longer have to read...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Windows, DataQwest Technologies, VA, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2002-11-07

Virtual Office Assistant (Mobile)

This E-Book has been compiled to enlighten you the viewer, as to the many ways a VA can help you in your business, saving you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars annually in overhead costs, enabling you to get back to doing what you do best - generating revenue for...

Tags: Mobile, Virtual Office, FTP, MHPublishing, VA, E-books, Collaboration, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-11-28

Additional Resources

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

VA now loves its VistA software

In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

VA now loves its VistA software

VA CIO Roger Baker, who was confirmed to his position in May, is calling VistA "the best in the world" and seeking to offer it to the rest of the government, and the health care industry. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Vista Software, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-15

News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06