12/04/2014    H. David Gottlieb, DPM

Free Public Domain Version of CPRS

In a few short minutes, I was able to find the
following links regarding downloads of the free,
public domain version of the VA’s electronic
health record CPRS. It wasn’t hard.
http://www.openclinical.org/os_OpenVistA.html
OpenVistA is the Open Source version of VistA
(Veterans health Information Systems and
Technology Architecture), the healthcare
information system developed by and for the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs

http://www.hardhats.org/projects/VistA_Install/Vis
ta_Install.html
What follows are instructions for installing VistA
using Caché v5 in a Microsoft Windows operating
system. The Vista software is available from the
Department of Veterans Affairs' ftp site as a
zipped CACHE.DAT file. (Note: The VA's ftp site is
not compatible with Netscape's ftp. Either use
Windows Explorer or FTP software). These
instructions are the result of contributions from
many. Information came from web sites such as
www.hardhats.org and www.seaislandsystems.com,
from the Hardhats mailing list, from responses to
questions addressed to or provided by specific
individuals working outside the list, from
technical support from www.intersystems.com, from
the lessons learned by those who assembled this
list and from the documentation provided with
VistA and Caché. Others also helped to format and
set up this document for release and post it on
the HardHats site. There were many testers and
reviewers of the instructions as well. Thank you
all and congratulations for finally getting these
instructions done!

http://cprs.sourceforge.net/
This is the VistA CPRS project ("cprs")
This project is hosted by SourceForge.net. The
project team describes it as: Computerized Patient
Record System (CPRS) client that interfaces with
the Veterans Health Information Systems and
Technology Architecture (VISTA).

H. David Gottlieb, DPM, Baltimore, MD

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