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		caboteria 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? It's worse than that. VistA is a world-class open source EMR that the VA has been trying to kill for decades.

nradov 8 months ago [–]

VistA was useful in it's time but it's hardly world class anymore. There were fundamental problems with the platform stack and data model which made it effectively impossible to keep moving forward.

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