Good question, Mark. (01)
I am adding Maury, David and Chris of WorldVistA to ask them to respond to your
question about Open VistA, ontologies and knowledge bases below. (02)
Marc
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From: health-ont-bounces
Sent: 10/08/2005 03:51 AM
To: health-ont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [health-ont] Existing ontology (04)
Has the group considered the very large medical care ontology embodied
in VistA, the VA hospital information management system with hundreds
of vertical applications? WorldVistA.org is taking it open source and
free, very actively now. If your work can be tailored to augment their
work, in collaboration with them, it might strengthen the most
important medical informatics system in existence. (05)
[I do not know enough about the technical aspects of your work, or of
VistA, to know if it is a fit, and I am not a programmer. But if it
would help prepare OpenVistA for being extended into health care
knowledgebases, perhaps your involvement would be welcomed.] (06)
VistA has resulted in an 85% reduction in wrong drug administration
and top rankings on Quality of Care indices among large hospital
systems in the United States. It's defining characteristic is its
design for participation by the users in its development and
maintenance. (07)
Regards, (08)
Mark Roest (09)
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