“And the most important standard is that the operator and manager and overseer of the particular VA where it is going to roll out is comfortable moving forward with changing a system.” “VA simply has to make sure that, at the place where they're going to roll it out, the standards are met,” he said.

Mike Bost, R-Ill.-who chairs the House panel-placed much of the blame for the EHR system’s troubled deployment on the companies behind the new software, saying that “it’s Cerner and Oracle that need to get their act together.” The foundation has garnered support from Google, Red Hat, Novell and Canonical (Ubuntu OS) amongst others, and unveiled the beta of its second major LibreOffice release late last week.Congress needs to advance legislation cracking down on Oracle Cerner’s management of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ multi-billion dollar electronic health record system, according to the top Republican on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, or lawmakers will have no choice but to terminate the project and reevaluate the future of the department’s EHR software modernization efforts. The Document Foundation commandeered the project in September 2010 and has since released its first stable version of LibreOffice in January 2011. Me thinks that Oracle will get a warm welcome from The Document Foundation.' 'And look, as per today Oracle searches a group, a community, that does want to give a home to. 'This is a big step forward in the direction that I expressed as a wish at the time that The Document Foundation started: that the two paths will merge again,' Nouws said. Nouws described Oracle's decision as a 'remarkable change in course. The most suitable home for OpenOffice would be The Document Foundation, according to one of the group's Dutch volunteers, Cor Nouws, posting on the organisation's blog. “Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF),' Screven added. 'Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the project would be best managed by an organisation focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis,' said Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect in a statement.

Oracle open office