It takes some pluck to drive in West Virginia, probably to live there, too, amid the many mountains, valleys, hills and “hollers.”
As one plucky experiment in open-source health information technology ends in the Mountain State, another continues to thrive.
I wrote about both recently: the seven-year test by a consortium of community health centers using a remote-hosted version of the Indian Health System's EHR, the Resource and Patient Management System, or RPMS, which is winding down; and the deployment in another network of the VA's VistA EHR across a couple of ambulatory-care clinics and seven state-run hospitals and long-term care facilities, a project that's going strong.
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