Installation Overview

The documentation for VistA can be classified in several groups:

Astronaut

• The Astronaut installers provide an integrated method for installing WorldVistA and OpenVistA.

Other installers

• See Software Downloads

Getting the software

• The VA ftp information page
• This is the VA ftp site for VistA: ftp://ftp.va.gov/VistA/ --ftp here requires IE not FireFox.
• The gftp client on Linux also works.

• This link is specifically for software: ftp://ftp.va.gov/VistA/Software/

• For the open source free software stack for VistA: http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista

Vendor pages

There are several vendors of VistA derivatives. Here are links to some of their information pages.

• Medsphere's OpenVistA CIS

VistA Documentation Library

• The VistA Documentation Library (VDL) is the Veteran Administration's internal documentation regarding VistA and CPRS.