[FOSS_health] VistA and HL7

[Woodhouse Gregory]

On May 16, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Tim Cook wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:38 -0700, Tom Jones wrote:
>> That is an interesting take on things. Everything I had ever heard  
>> about
>> my-health-e-vet did not lead me to believe that it had aspirations to
>> replace VistA. I rather thought that it was supposed to provide a  
>> patient
>> view into VistA so that it could be represented as the PHR for  
>> veterans
>> (that, of course, was a questionable view of PHR's)
>
> That is exactly what myHealth-e-Vet is/was. Also, as far as I know the
> VistA interface was and is loved by many end-users.  So I'm a bit
> confused by the writing from Lee's student.  Maybe I don't understand
> the context it was written in?

MyHealtheVet and HealtheVet are different things. MyHealtheVet is,  
indeed, a PHR.


"In the human mind, one-sidedness has
always been the rule and many-sidedness the
  exception. Hence, even in revolutions of
thought, one part of the truth usually sets while
  another rises."
--John Stuart Mill



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