30th VistA Community Meeting

30th VistA Community Meeting, January 16-18, 2015

 UC Davis, Sacramento Campus, Sacramento, California

Hosted by the Department of Pathology, UC Davis School of Medicine

"Connecting people who are serious about VistA"

Sponsors:

       

   

Conference Registration

 

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

Pre-Conference Courses

GT.M Course: taught by KS Bhaskar will be offered for the four days before the meeting, Monday, January 12 through Thursday, January 15th. Contact Nancy Anthracite (nancy@worldvista.org) if you have questions.

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the GT.M Course

EWD.js Course: Rob Tweed will be offering this course Tuesday, January 13 through Thursday, January 15th.   Contact Nancy Anthracite (nancy@worldvista.org) if you have questions.

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the EWD Course

 

We were unable to obtain training rooms in a hotel next to the UC Davis Medical Center and the VistA Community Meeting so the training will be held at the Comfort Inn on 21 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95826. The Comfort Inn is 3.5 miles from the UC Davis Campus.

The room rate will be $79.99 for both king and double rooms for those attending the training. Call the hotel at 1-916-379-0400 and let them know that you are calling abou the WorldVistA Training to get that rate.

The GT.M training begins at 8:30 AM on the 12th and the EWD training at 10 AM on the 13th.

Assistance will be provided to transfer from the Comfort Inn to a hotel near the VistA Community Meeting by Nancy Anthracite on the evening of January 15 if needed.  Nancy's cell phone is 240-793-7436 if you have questions or need help.

 

Lodging Information for the VistA Community Meeting Area Hotels by Proximity to the Meeting:

Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Midtown: ~1 block from UC Davis

4422 Y Street, Sacramento, CA, 95817

Direct Line is 916-455-6800 - consider booking online

(Example -11-5-2014 for meeting dates in January Lowest Expedia and Orbits $87)

No airport transportation, Inquire about Internet and parking, Parking may not be free

 

Hotel Med Park: ~1.5 blocks from UC Davis

2356 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA, 95817

Direct Line to Hotel is 916-455-4000 - consider using online booking

(Example Priceline 11-5-2014 for January was $119)

No airport transportation, Inquire about parking and Internet

 

De Ville Motel: ~2 blocks from UC Davis

2756 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817

Direct Line (916) 457-9803

$65 for two double beds and $55 for one queen bed

No airport transportation, Parking and Internet free of charge

  Questions contact Nancy Anthracite nancy@worldvista.org

 

 

About the 30th VistA Community Meeting

The goal of VistA Community Meetings is for those involved in the VistA Community to network & collaborate, i.e., to share ideas and work, with the objective of moving VistA & the VistA community forward. 

Compared to most meetings, VistA Community Meetings are relatively unstructured.  The agenda is always a draft agenda, because attendees are free to change it – even during the meeting – in order to  better meet their objectives. VistA Community Meetings were originally almost exclusively technical meetings.  Over time, the balance shifted, so that although there are technical presentations, there are more discussions on other aspects, including implementation, support, demonstration, education, training, and community collaboration.

Please come prepared to introduce yourself and discuss your interest in and work with VistA as talking with the other attendees at the meeting is a least half of the reason to come to the meetings.  If you wish to present material, please contact nancy@worldvista.org.  If you think you might decide to present something at the last minute, bring your presentation with you as things can be added to the agenda at the last minute.  Also, we encourage you to bring your laptop to the meeting with you.  It seems like there is always someone who regrets not having brought it so they can install VistA or try the latest and greatest software while they are at the meeting.

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our appreciation to UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento for hosting the meeting.

Location of the Meeting 

 The meeting is in the Medical Education building on the Sacramento Campus of UC Davis and the rooms are on the heading of the schedule.  Here is a link to a map showing where that building is located. 

   Map showing the Medical Education Building

 Speakers

Hotel Name

Address

Phone

Transportation

Notes

Speaker	Topic
Howard Hays, CIO Indian Health Service, Retired	TBA
Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, Deputy Minister of Health, Tanzania	Zanzibar Health Sector Reform. The Success Story with USAID PARTNERSHIP and other US Organizations
Jason Hawsey, CPRS Developer, Department of Veterans Affairs	CPRS Update
Michael Hogarth, MD FACP, Professor and Vice Chair of Informatics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine   and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis	Patient Registries, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Open Source EHR Software
Paul Tibbits, MD, Department of Veterans Affairs, CIO Architecture, Strategy, and Design	TBA (on site, Saturday)
Dave Whitten, CTO WorldVistA & Central Regional Hospital VistA Manager	HL7 & Input Templates
Patrick Redington, Programmer for Reminders, VA	Reminders and PCE Update
Alan Montgomery, National Support, Reminders, VA	Reminders Update (Saturday)
Nancy Van Ness	Open Source Drug Interaction Databases
Keith Magoon, VA Project Manager for Immunizations	Project Management in the VA
Stephen Oxley, MD,  CMO, Central Regional Hospital	VistA Customization, Configuration and Content: A Collaborative Approach
Joe Thurber, CTO, Central Regional Hospital	CPRS Enhancements
TBA	eHMP
Don Hewitt, Vice President, Business Operations, OSEHRA	OSEHRA Update
Jeff Udell	Lexicon and Terminology Update
Sidney Tarason, CEO / Lead Programmer, Astute Semantics	VistA Modernized (vendor)
Joel Ivey	Coding Using the M editor for Eclipse Unit Testing for M code
Zeid M AbuGhosh, MD, CMO EHS, Jordan	Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan
Ghai Al-Kuoz, MD Clinical Transformation Manager, EHS, Jordan	Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan  (Separate session from Zeid's)
Olivier Bodenreider, MD PhD, Chief, Cognitive Science Branch, National Library of Medicine	RxNorm
Noam Arzt, PhD, HLN Consulting	ICE and CAT, Open Source Software for Immunization Forecasting(Friday 8AM)
KS Bhaskar, FIS,  Development Director	GT.M Update
Rick Marshall, VistA Expertise Network	Forum Fileman VistA Architecture
Joel Mewton, Senior Software Engineer, Bitscopic	VistA Refactoring and Modernization Tools and Strategies (without writing M code!)
Donna Ellis, Program Manager, Pharmacy Re-Engineering	VA Pharmacy Update
Rafael Richards, MD, MS,  Physician Informatician, Collaboration Team,  Health Solutions Management,  Office of Informatics and Analytics (OIA),   VHA	Strategic/Infrastructure Enhancements to VistA (not package specific).
Douglas Martin, MD,  Regenstrief Institute	CareWeb Framework Update
Fabian Lopez, , PMP, CSM, Project Manager DSS	The VistA Learning Center and Extension Hub
Rohit Kumar, CEO, GTI Infotel	Open Source GTI Practice Management followed by an overview of the Indian hospital/healthcare IT Industry
Sam Habiel, , Pharm.D., Director of Technology, VISTA Expertise Network	Cryptography in VistA; Latte, a replacement for MOCHA
George Lilly, CIO, WorldVistA & Director, VISTA Expertise Network	Progress in Web Services Using MUMPS
Rob Silverman, PharmD Program Manager, PBM Clinical Informatics	Update on the Immunization Project

Agenda

 

 

Time	Friday, January 16, 2015
Day 1	Friday, January 18, 2013
	Room   -  Medical Education Building 1222	Rm. 1335	Rm .1333
07:30	Doors Open
8:00	ICE and CAT, Open Source Software for Immunization Forecasting - Noam Artz
9:00	VA Pharmacy Update - Donna Ellis
9:45	Break Sponsored by GT.M
10:15	Lexicon Update, Jeff Udell
11:00	Project Management in the VA, Keith Magoon
11:45	Lunch Sponsored by GT.M
13:00	Immunization Project, Rob Silverman
13:45	Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan - Zeid AbuGhosh
14:30	Coffee Break Sponsored by GT.M
14:45	Fileman - Rick Marshall
15:30	Introduction of Attendees
16:15	Open Discussion Session with the community about Needed Strategic/Infrastructure Enhancements to VistA (not package specific) - Rafael Richards
16:00
16:45
Day 2	Saturday, January 17, 2015
Time	Room	Room 1335	Room
08:00	CPRS Update - Jayson Hawsey
08:45	Reminders Update - Alan Montgomery and Patrick Redington	Unit Testing - Joel Ivey
09:30	KS Bhaskar - GT.M Update
10:15	Break Sponsored by DSS
10:30	The VistA Learning Center and Extension Hub - Fabian Lopez	Reminders Update - Alan Montgomery and Patrick Redington
11:15	Zanzibar Health Sector Reform. The Success Story with USAID PARTNERSHIP and other US Organizations -  Mahmoud Thabit Kombo -Followed By- VistA Modernized (vendor) - Sidney Tarason	Reminders Update Continued
12:00	Lunch Sponsored by DSS
13:15	Paul Tibbits
14:00	VistA Customization, Configuration and Content: A Collaborative Approach - Steven Oxley and Matthew King	EWD Update - Rob Tweed
14:45	Break Sponsored by DSS
15:00	OSEHRA Update - Don Hewitt	Eclipse Editor - Joel Ivey
15:45	Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan - Ghai Al-Kuoz
16:30	CPRS Enhancements - Joe Thurber	VistA Refactoring and Modernization Tools and Strategies (without writing M code!) - Joel Mewton
Day 3	Sunday,  January 18, 2015
Time	Room	Room	Room
08:15	Reflections on a career in IHS - And Half a Career in Informatics - Howard Hays
09:00	Open Source GTI Practice Management followed by an overview of the Indian hospital/healthcare IT Industry - Rohit Kumar	Cryptograpy in VistA - Sam Habiel
09:45	CareWeb Framework Update - Douglas Martin
10:30	Break
10:45	Latte - Sam Habiel	Dave Whitten - Input Templates
11:30	RxNorm, Olivier Bodenreider
12:15	Lunch
13:00	Open Source Drug Databases - Nancy Van Ness	HL7 - Whitten
13:45	Forum - Rick Marshall
14:30	Break
14:45	Progress in Web Services Using MUMPS - George Lilly
15:30	VistA Architecture - Rick Marshall
16:15