OSEHRA Press Releases

OSEHRA Receives ANSI Accreditation as SDO

Posted date: Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:17

Arlington, VA – The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) is pleased to announce that it has been accredited as a Standards Development Organization (SDO) by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This accreditation allows OSEHRA to begin utilizing its approved operating procedures to document consensus and create OSEHRA-sponsored American National Standards.

OSEHRA Community Launches Open Source VistA Marketing Campaign

Posted date: Fri, 02/20/2015 - 11:32

Arlington, VA – A collaborative effort by the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) and its Corporate Members is underway to raise the visibility of open source VistA as a proven, open, and affordable EHR for the commercial marketplace.

“The eagerness of our members to actively engage in this promotion demonstrates exactly what OSEHRA can offer the open source community,” said Dr. Seong K. Mun, President of OSEHRA. “We are committed to the advancement of healthcare.”

OSEHRA Opens Registration for 2015 Open Source Summit

Posted date: Tue, 02/03/2015 - 16:40

Arlington, VA – The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) is pleased to announce that registration for its 2015 Open Source Summit: Community-Powered Healthcare IT Solutions, to occur July 29-31 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, is now available.

2018 Leadership Award Recipients Recognized

Summit Sidebars

In addition to the official Summit proceedings, there were several noteworthy side discussions / activities on VistA.

1) The Joint Legacy Viewer was found to contain code injection into VistA. This is pretty well recognized as a “bad practice” from a security perspective. OSEHRA notified VA, and the code has been removed.

The Best Summit Yet!

OSEHRA’s Seventh Annual Summit closed this afternoon, Friday, July 20, with a spirited discussion on open source licensing and code contribution. This year’s event included speakers from ten different Government agencies, our widest participation in our history.

New Work Group! First OA2 Meeting Scheduled

The first bi-weekly meeting for the new Open API and Open Architecture (OA2) Work Group has been scheduled. Sponsored by Organizational Member CGI Federal, the goal of this group is to leverage the OSEHRA community’s deep knowledge, along with new Open API initiatives in the HIT industry, to draft a conceptual HIT Open Architecture. The group will also support efforts to pilot and implement reference implementations of its use.

Enhanced ViViaN™ Now Available on OSEHRA Website

We’re please to announce a new version of our ViViaN™ visualization toolset. OSEHRA’s VistA Cross Reference (DOX) pages have gotten a great deal of positive feedback from VistA users/developers inside and outside of VA. However, it didn’t capture some of the more obscure package dependencies, and there was no ability to export reports. VA needed both capabilities to assist with internal development efforts, and funded a set of enhanced capabilities.

OSEHRA Announces Victory Programming Environment (VPE) Version 14.2!

OSEHRA is pleased to announce Version 14.2 of the Victory Programming Environment (VPE). VPE is a proven, terminal-based, integrated development environment written in MUMPS that provides developers with a wide variety of tools for creating and working with MUMPS programs and data structures. While it was initially designed with VistA in mind, it can also be effective in other MUMPS environments.

popHealth® Version 5.1 Available Now for the 2018 Clinical Quality Measure Reporting

The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) announced today the release of the Version 5.1 of the popHealth® open-source clinical quality measure database and reporting engine. The new release maintains its 2015 Edition Health IT Module certification for Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) reporting criteria: (c)2-4, (d)1-3, (g)4, and (g)5 for the Calendar Year 2018 performance period.

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