Architecture - Blog posts

After many years working on both the VA VistA and DoD CHCS software architectures, I came to the conclusion that we were hitting a wall of complexity that could not be handled with the technologies that we were using.  In the mid 1990's, I started wandering around looking for alternatives.  I found two very interesting candidates.

Thanks to Terry Simmons and Mark Gamble for the impressive demo of the Actuate BIRT product and for introducing the BIRT open source technology to the OSEHRA community.

Here is the link to the session recording: :  https://osehra.webex.com/osehra/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=6788817&rKey=b439f8c6b71c72f2

To Download Eclipse BIRT:

birt-exchange.org

eclipse.org/birt

From Chuck Hagel's testimony yesterday:

"I didn't think we knew what the hell we were doing," Hagel said. "We've got teams over at VA and we're doing a lot of good things, but we haven't completed an integrated health record system, which is what we committed to."

http://www.fierceemr.com/story/hagel-iehr-i-didnt-think-we-knew-what-hel...

Colleagues,

Please see invite below received from the Office of the National Coordinator, Health IT (ONCHIT), Department of Health and Human Services to the OSEHRA community.

ENJOY!