Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs
The state veterans program administered by the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, under the direction of the War Veterans Commission as the controlling board, provides comprehensive services to Oklahoma's veterans, including nursing and domiciliary care, financial assistance in emergencies, and field service counseling in the filing of claims for
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and state benefits. Oklahoma's seven veterans centers—located in Ardmore, Claremore, Clinton, Lawton, Norman, Sulphur and
Talihina—provide intermediate to skilled nursing care and domiciliary care for wartime veterans.
The Oklahoma project gave Medsphere the opportunity to develop a series of tools for rapidly deploying VistA systems. These tools remain part of our special tool chest and are the "secret sauce" that enables us to rapidly and successfully deploy new customers on OpenVista®, our VistA-derived electronic health record solution.
Media Coverage
Early Medsphere Customer
Feb. 27, 2007—According to an article by Douglas Goldstein and Peter Groen—"VistA Electronic Health Record (EHR) System: The Market Today and Tomorrow" in Virtual Medical Worlds—"the State of Oklahoma acquired and implemented VistA and its EHR component (CPRS) at all seven veterans homes. Their architecture involves a centralized system using a single VistA database residing in Oklahoma City. The state awarded a contract to Hewlett Packard (HP) and Medsphere Corporation to implement VistA in early 2004. The first facility was up and running by May 2004 and the project was successfully completed well ahead of schedule in the summer of 2005, with all seven healthcare facilities using VistA."
