VCM Boston 2005 Session - VistA Questions And Answers

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Who makes VistA anyway ?

Elves. In a small forest glen, somewhere near a waterfall and a glorious rainbow.

The term VistA is actually an umbrella term used to describe all variants of code using VA FileMan based Health Care Systems. There are some techno-dwarves involved as well, through a technology transfer agreement.


What does the Community mean by VistA ?

How does anyone in the outside world get support for VistA ?

How do the Open Source advocates feel VistA should be supported ?

What is the process for maintaining the VistA source code system ?

The code is supported by multiple sources. This is outlined in the VistA Software Life Cycle.

How will this process be funded ?