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Ignacio Valdez, a psychiatrist in Houston TX, has been charged with implementing VistA for a chain of psychiatric facilities. He has posted his progress on the Hardhats discussion group. Some of the threads are reproduced here.
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Ignacio Valdes, a psychiatrist in Houston TX, has been charged with implementing VistA for a chain of psychiatric facilities. He has posted his progress on the Hardhats discussion group. Some of the threads are reproduced here.  
  
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The traditional method for implementing a new VistA instance has been likened to an old-fashioned barn-raising: at the appointed time the holders of "institutional memory" would gather and put the thing together. There was no written blueprint, yet at the end of the day there would be a solid, usable structure in place. The unedited discussions quoted here give a taste of the skill and wackiness of such a gathering.
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In this case however, the ultimate goal is not just a new VistA instance, but also a blueprint for how to do it.
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==Episode 1== [[Episode 1|Do What and Why?]]
 
==Episode 2== [[Episode2|Multiple Sign-ons]]
 
==Episode 2== [[Episode2|Multiple Sign-ons]]

Revision as of 16:50, 5 May 2009

Ignacio Valdes, a psychiatrist in Houston TX, has been charged with implementing VistA for a chain of psychiatric facilities. He has posted his progress on the Hardhats discussion group. Some of the threads are reproduced here.

The traditional method for implementing a new VistA instance has been likened to an old-fashioned barn-raising: at the appointed time the holders of "institutional memory" would gather and put the thing together. There was no written blueprint, yet at the end of the day there would be a solid, usable structure in place. The unedited discussions quoted here give a taste of the skill and wackiness of such a gathering.

In this case however, the ultimate goal is not just a new VistA instance, but also a blueprint for how to do it.

==Episode 1== Do What and Why? ==Episode 2== Multiple Sign-ons