[ Thanks to I.
Valdes for this link. ]
“Dr. Omar El Hattab was a Cancer Epidemiologist at the National
Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. He was responsible for
getting DHCP (the precursor to VistA) installed at his cancer
institutes. In order to help Linux Medical News readers understand
the challenges he faced in setting up the software in Arabic and
English we present the following interview. ‘VistA is a
comprehensive system that is tested and functioning. It is open
source and that allowed us to make modifications on the code that
was needed for Arabization. Also to modify the applications to the
way things are done in Egypt and to the way our physicians do their
work… many experts in the medical field shared in the development
of the software (VistA), so it fits very well the work and the high
standards of medical profession…'”