Astronaut Announces VistA Installer Suite 0.9-5 Beta

Houston, Texas — Astronaut, LLC announces the latest edition of its Astronaut VistA Installer Suite Beta version 0.9-5 (Third Stage). This release adds many features including an all modular, upgradeable and extensible architecture. This means that automatic and semi-automatic upgrading and extension on a large scale can be done. Out-of-the-box backup and restore capability is included as well as many new TMG-CPRS features such as template calculation and html form rendering. The VistA-Config administration tool adds stability and improved workflow for frequently used user management. Beta testing instructions can be found in the README-First file <a href=”http://sourceforge.net/projects/astronaut/files/”>here</a>.

Modern Health Information Technology Hippocratic Oath v. 1.0

The following is a Modern Health Information Technology Hippocratic Oath version 1.0 based on the Modern Hippocratic Oath

“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgement, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won Health IT software gains of those clinicians and software engineers in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such software knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. Continue reading

GNUmed job openings – what it takes to run a free software project

Choice is good. Having many software packages for the same job to choose from is great. Every now and then someone pops up and announces a new EMR project because the currently available one just don’t cut it. The GNUmed project has been around for a while and would like to offer some hints on what it takes to run a free software EMR project. Here are some job descriptions a company would have to post when starting from scratch.
GNUmed public relations manager

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