Is there a specific pointer to the ontology used with the VistA system?
I have had trouble trying to track it down. (01)
Pat (02)
Patrick Cassidy
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Email: pcassidy at mitre.org (03)
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Good question, Mark. (05)
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. (06)
Marc
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Subject: [health-ont] Existing ontology (08)
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. (09)
[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.] (010)
VistA has resulted in an 85% reduction in wrong drug administration and (011)
top rankings on Quality of Care indices among large hospital systems in (012)
the United States. It's defining characteristic is its design for
participation by the users in its development and maintenance. (013)
Regards, (014)
Mark Roest (015)
Mark Roest
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oneVillage Initiative - Holistic ICT Development for Eco Living
Sustainable development and technologies
http://onevillagefoundation.org/ovf/initiative.html
1.510-461-6405 (new number, please note) (016)
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