“OSEHRA is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative to create an internationalized version of the VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VistA is periodically released to the public via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and enhanced by the OSEHRA community to create OSEHRA VistA, an open source resource for the entire EHR community. The internationalization effort, dubbed Plan VI, aims to expand VistA capability by making it compatible with various different languages and creating a reference implementation for global use…”
“International participants from South Korea (Pusan University; SooSangST Co., Inc. and Kyungpook National University), China (Harbin Institute of Technology), and the Kingdom of Jordan (Electronic Health Solutions) have already joined U.S. members DSS, Inc. and YottaDB, LLC in this exciting initiative. The workgroup is expected to grow rapidly. The result of this project will be a VistA version capable of storing and displaying information in any language using Unicode. The project will specifically include Korean, Chinese, German, and Arabic and the intent is to showcase use of glyph-based languages, a European language that uses a decimal comma, and a right-to-left written language. Development will consist of three stages: the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) interface, VistA’s internal Fileman / Roll-and-Scroll interface, and the HL7 data transfer standard.”
“OSEHRA highly encourages all organizations and individuals interested in contributing to join by visiting the Plan VI project page…” Read the full press release here.
Source: Plan VI – OSEHRA Launching Internationalized Version of VistA – August 29, 2019. PRWeb.
