VistA & Other 'Open Source' EHR Systems Spread Across New York State

The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across New York and many other states across the U.S.  See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in New York and surrounding areas.

 

In the state of New York, all of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare facilities are continuing to use the well known, award winning VistA System. VA healthcare facilities (i.e. hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes) using VistA include the:

• Albany VA Medical Center • Auburn VA Clinic • Bainbridge VA Clinic • Bath VA Medical Center • Bay Shore VA Clinic • Behavioral Health Facility • Binghamton VA Clinic • Bronx VA Medical Center • Brooklyn VA Medical Center • Canandaigua VA Medical Center • Carmel/Putnam County VA Clinic • Castle Point VA Medical Center • Catskill VA Clinic • Chapel Street/Brooklyn VA Clinic • Clifton Park VA Clinic • Dunkirk VA Clinic • East Meadow VA Clinic • Eastern Dutchess VA Clinic • Elizabethtown VA Clinic • Elmira VA Clinic • Fonda VA Clinic • Glens Falls VA Clinic • Goshen VA Clinic • Harlem VA Clinic • Jamestown VA Clinic • Kingston VA Clinic • Lackawanna VA Clinic • Lockport VA Clinic • Malone VA Clinic

• Manhattan VA Medical Center • Montrose VA Medical Center • Massena VA Clinic • Monticello VA Clinic • New City VA Clinic • Niagara Falls VA Clinic • Northport VA Medical Center • Olean VA Clinic • Oswego VA Clinic • Patchogue VA Clinic • Plattsburgh VA Clinic • Port Jervis VA Clinic • Poughkeepsie VA Clinic • Queens VA Clinic • Riverhead VA Clinic • Rochester VA Clinic • Rome VA Clinic • Schenectady VA Clinic • Staten Island VA Clinic • Syracuse VA Medical Center • Tompkins/Cortland County VA Clinic • Troy VA Clinic • Batavia VA Medical Center • Buffalo VA Medical Center • Valley Stream VA Clinic • Warsaw VA Clinic • Watertown VA Clinic • Wellsville VA Clinic • White Plains VA Clinic • Yonkers VA Clinic

The following Indian Health Service (IHS) or Native American Tribal healthcare facilities in New York are currently using a variant of the VistA system known as RPMS:

• Oneida Indian Nation Tribal Health Clinic

• St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Health Clinic

The following are other Federal, State, and local government healthcare facilities in New York currently using other derivatives of the VistA system, e.g. CHCS, OpenVistA, vxVistA.

• Lutheran Medical Center

• Keller Army Community Hospital

Check out the map of all healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in New York and other states across the U.S. and around the world.  VistA, or one of its derivatives, is one of the most widely used EHR systems in the U.S.

Several public and private sector organizations in the state of New York are also actively contemplating acquiring and implementing VistA. For example, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) will be implementing Document Storage Systems (DSS) vxVistA electronic health record (EHR) system in 23 hospitals and 300 clinics across the state. The prime contractor for this enterprise-wide contract is CGI Group Inc.

The NY State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is one of the largest healthcare delivery organizations in the U.S.  During the first phase of the project, vxVistA will be installed in a limited number of OMH hospital facilities. This initial phase will allow OMH to modify vxVistA to produce a customized version of VistA that best meet their specific needs.

OMH plans to leverage several vxVistA integrated solutions that developed by DSS that are specific to behavioral health. These include DSS' Mental Health Suite (vxMHS). This customized version of VistA, called "Empire State VistA", will then be implemented at all remaining OMH hospitals and outpatient clinic facilities.

Other popular 'open source' EHR systems in use across New York include OpenEMR and OpenMRS. It has been estimated that there are more than 5,000 installations of OpenEMR in physician offices and other small healthcare facilities across the U.S. serving more than 30 million patients. As of 2012, OpenMRS was in use at over 100 facilities in more than 30 countries and had been used to record over 2 million patient records around the world.

Stay tuned for updates about VistA implementations in New York and other states across the U.S.