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Student Discovers Security Loophole in VistA

Sunday, Dec 01 2013
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A graduate student at Georgia Tech University discovered a potential security problem with the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture Electronic Health Record (VistA). So reports EHR Intelligence .

The student was examining VistA, which is an open source system, for a school project when he discovered a potential security loophole that would leave the system vulnerable to a cyber-attack. To close the loophole, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) released a patch.

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