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Introduction to VISTA

 

Learn One:  Assigned Reading

  • VistA -- US Department of Veteran Affairs National Scale Healthcare Information System (HIS) International Journal of Medical Informatics, February, 2003.  More►
  • The Veterans Health Administration:  quality, value, accountability and information as transforming strategies for patient centered care.  The American Journal of Managed Care, November, 2004.  More►
  • Comparison of quality of care for patients in the Veterans Health Administration and patients in a national sample.  Annals of Internal Medicine, December, 2004.  More►

Presentations

  1. See slides from Dr Tirmizi's talk on Management using Health Information Systems.  Slides►

  2. See slides from Omar El Hattab MD Slides►

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What do you know?

Advanced learners like you, often need different ways of understanding a topic. Reading is just one way of understanding. Another way is through writing about what you have read.  The enclosed assessment is designed to get you to think more about the concepts taught in this session.

  1. What evidence is there that VistA has increased productivity of the veterans Administration (in the sense of reducing cost per patient)?

  2. What evidence is there that the quality of care at Veterans Administration is better than quality of care at other Health Maintenance Organizations?

  3. What evidence is there that use of VistA has led to reduction in medication errors at the Veterans Administration Health Centers?

  4. When was VistA started and how has it evolved over time?

  5. What is the cost of licensing VistA for use in a for profit hospital?  Is this the total cost of running an Electronic Health Record?

  6. Is VistA an open software, where anyone can take the code of the software and change it and use it as they see fit?

  7. How does bar code medication dispensing come about and what does the emergence of this innovation tell us about the way VistA evolves?

Do One:  Use the Vista EHR to Track a Simulated Patient

  1. Download the VistA Office demonstration.  Download►  
  2. Sign in as the default Doctor and patient BCMA eight.  Note the summary displayed.


     
  3.  View the cover sheet and take an image of the cover sheet (use Control and Print Screen to capture the screen) and insert it in a slide, adjust the image size to fit the slide.  Note the elements of cover sheet.


     
  4. Sign out by clicking on the patient's name and sign in as Patient Six.  Display the patient's recent blood pressures using all the available lab tests.  You can find this information under vitals in the cover sheet.  Make an image of the screen and insert it into a new slide.


     
  5. Forward your slides to the instructor.

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