OSEHRA's "Coming Out" Status Report

[stephen hufnagel]

OSEHRA’s operational objective to be fully operational within 120-days
from start-of-work will be met on-or-before 17-Oct-11. The OSEHRA
Team, with DoD and VA help, have executed the Herculean task of
establishing OSEHRA as a non-profit organization, creating plans and
processes, documenting the enormous 40-year-old VistA System
Architecture, creating a future-state Vista (aka iEHR) Software
Development Kit (SDK), setting-up and populating the OSEHRA web-site
with state-of-the-art open-source development-support tools, applying
those tools to the August VistA FOIA release. OSEHRA is following an
Agile approach and everything will be incrementally refined as time
goes by. During the first 120 days, OSEHRA purposely stayed low-
profile; so as to not create disillusionment by “going public” before
it had anything to offer.

OSEHRA is ready to commence executing its plans to build an innovative
vender and open source community, to guide the transformation of
legacy VistA and AHLTA, to become a modern world-class interoperable
EHR platform, to foster a marketplace of “plug-and-play” best-of-class
applications, to meet the domain-specific needs of medical
specialties; ideally, configuring the iEHR will become as simple, for
users, as adding a “marketplace” application to a smartphone.

OSEHRA needs the DoD, VA, IHS leadership and open source stakeholders
to embrace this vision, endorse OSEHRA’s leadership role within their
organizations and encourage their staff and contractors to work
through OSEHRA, to contribute and to follow OSEHRA’s “System
Architecture, Product Definition and Roadmap” and “Software
Development Kit (SDK)”; there is no excuse for nay-saying or passive-
aggressive response. If a staff-member, contractor or open-source-
stakeholder does not like OSEHRA’s direction, they can participate in
the Architecture Committee or be a part of another workgroup, or be a
part of OSEHRA’s leadership. Your participation is important to help
set OSEHRA's direction. Individual membership is free; your help is
needed in defining the National interoperable EHR kernel services to
support plug-and-play applications. Your participation can help make
the iEHR-CIIF a national platform for vender and open source iEHR
application success!

[David Whitten]

Stephen,

Is it in the scope of work for OSEHRA to deal with issues of the 

Consolidated Health Care System (CHCS) code base?  

I know some very bright people worked on it

at SAIC, and have since then within the Department of Defense.

As a "cousin" to RPMS and VistA, to my knowledge, CHCS is still

used within the DoD.  It would be interesting if its code could also

be part of the open source work of the OSEHRA.

Best Wishes,

David

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