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Astronaut, LLC announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ EHR Beta

Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Friday December 18, 2009 @ 03:50 AM
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Editor's note: Astronaut, LLC is owned by the same conspiracy that runs Linux Medical News.
December 17th, 2009 Houston, Texas

Astronaut, LLC announces the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Electronic Health Record Beta.

Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com Announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Beta program. Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ allows health care facilities, educators, developers, and physicians to start and manage affordable, encrypted, cloud based instances of Astronaut VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) in minutes. This Beta is the first offering of a cloud-based Veterans Affairs VistA EHR with many enhancements. Astronaut, LLC offers both WorldVistA™ and OpenVista™ based editions.

You can watch brief videos here: Demo and How to Signup. Click Read More to see the full text of the announcement after the break. Digg this article

December 17th, 2009 Houston, Texas

Astronaut, LLC announces the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Electronic Health Record Beta.

The Astronaut™ VistA Installer is already the simplest way to start using the VistA EHR. The Astronaut VistA Installer turns an installation process that used to take months into an hour or less. Now Astronaut Shuttle™ uses pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMI) with Astronaut VistA pre-installed in minutes with secure disk and client traffic encryption included. The Astronaut VistA AMI images are available starting at approximately $100/month ($30+server(~$62)+bandwidth per month based on usage). This includes full disk and client traffic encryption, access to support tickets on a per ticket purchase basis, and basic instructional videos. More services will be coming soon! Shuttle, sign-up information, video demo and video how to signup can be found here: http://shuttle.astronautvista.com With the release of the Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ Beta, Astronaut LLC is leaving stealth mode and announcing an innovative VistA-focused company. Astronaut LLC is releasing the most innovative, stable, and easy to use Astronaut VistA EHR platform yet. Astronaut VistA EHR currently comes in both WorldVistA™ and Medsphere's OpenVista™ editions (not official releases of these organizations). Both VistA EHR versions are based directly on the Veterans Affairs VistA hospital information system. Astronaut LLC is making VistA accessible, affordable and easy to install.

The inspiration for the name "Astronaut VistA" is twofold. Astronaut, LLC is headquartered in Houston, Texas, near NASA mission control. Second, Astronauts make extremely complex technology and science applied in a high-pressure environment into something that looks easy and fun. Astronaut intends to make VistA into something that any clinician can easily enjoy while positioning its users and products to achieve ARRA certification and "meaningful use". CEO and President Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS, states: "Astronaut, LLC was formed to benefit society through innovative and affordable Electronic Medical Record software based on standard, proven products. The future is here. Astronaut provides software that greatly improves the functionality and user experience for VistA in the private sector."

Convenient and affordable access to Astronaut VistA EHR is available now.

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Contact information:
Astronaut, LLC
3519 Blue Bonnet,
Houston, Tx 77025
http://astronautvista.com
astronautvista@gmail.com
713-661-1887

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Re: Astronaut, LLC announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ EHR Beta
by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Saturday December 19, 2009 @ 03:44 PM

I'll link these in above but there are two 10 minute each videos available, Demo and how to signup: Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me05X2p3bIA&feature=player_embedded How to signup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYEWUPfwuX0&feature=player_embedded -- IV

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Re: Astronaut, LLC announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ EHR Beta
by Carla Derisive on Saturday December 19, 2009 @ 04:12 PM

CEO and President Ignacio Valdes - lol what a joke ! And so there you have the purpose of linuxmednews folks - self promotion of Ignacios business. Ironic that Ignacio earns money from google ads on linuxmednews advertising eclinicalworks and the like

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Re: Astronaut, LLC announces Astronaut VistA Shuttle™ EHR Beta
by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Sunday December 20, 2009 @ 01:39 AM

Thank you for bringing this up. I welcome this criticism as you are probably a thoughtful and conscientious person who like most of us strives for a better world.

Nine years ago, Linux Medical News was begun: "to facilitate, amplify and begin the process of fundamentally changing medical education and practice into a more effective, fair and humane enterprise using modern technologies...allows anyone to contribute as well as providing forums for discussion..."

This site has long maintained a neutral stance and would post or approve postings as long as they were a) Free/Open Source licensed. b) Relevant, c) Not defamatory, d) Having to do with FOSS in medicine. That has not changed.

Yet I had a career as a BS, MS computer scientist and software engineer and have long had ideas of my own that no one seemed to be implementing. Obviously I've implemented those ideas and there are more to come. It would be odd and out of character of this site not to report on those events.

This site has always welcomed and encouraged press releases from Free/Open Source companies, announcements, etc. That has not changed, nor will it change. If someone has something to say related to Free/Open Source software in medicine that we consider relevant, not defamatory, and they wish to post it here then it is still welcome. Very few postings have been rejected over the years.

For better or for worse, I have committed myself to a specific company Astronaut, LLC and team with what I believe will be revolutionary results. In some ways it is already a great success with the VistA installers. To date I have spent thousands of hours of my own time on the company and its products. I do not think this effects my abilities as editor of Linux Medical News. The same policies that we have always lived by on this site will continue to exist. It remains wide open to those with something to say related to Free/Open Source software in medicine. Having said that, we are not responsible for posting about other companies, events and products although that frequently happens. As always they are welcome to post events and announcements.

I realize that this may not satisfy critics or even friends. I reply that the only constant is change, that we have limited time on this earth, and it was time for me to enter the arena. So I end by quoting the following:

"...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat..."

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