“… the agency would probably be better off investing in its homegrown EHR rather than buying a commercial off-the-shelf system as Veterans Affairs plans to do, according to Terry Cullen, the agency’s former CIO. The Indian Health Services issued an RFI last month announcing plans to update its system, known as RPMS, which is a “sibling” of the VA’s VistA system. Cullen…..(said)…that the IHS has shaky IT staffing and needs a health IT system that can be learned easily….”
Source: Open Source Probably Best for IHS – January 12, 2018, By Mohana Ravindranath, Politico Morning eHealth. Read the full newsletter here.