July 22, 2005

Medicare to give away its medical software for free

Medicare has decided to give away its software package, called VistA, to practitioners free of charge. The software has always been freely available, but now they’re actively promoting VistA-Office as a means to fast-track the digitization of medical records in the United States. The software will be available to practitioners in August.

As someone who has been very interested in digitizing all medical records, this is very cool. The software used at VA hospitals — VistA — is among the best in the world.

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