32nd VistA Community Meeting

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Lodging

Hotel Name	Address	Phone	Transportation	Notes
Indianapolis Dwtn Medical Dist	1152 N. White River Pkwy. W. Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana United States   46222	1-317-536-7700	See transportation from the airport below for information for getting to the hotel from the airport. From the hotel to Regenstrief, there is a shuttlebus that leaves on the hour that will take you to Regenstrief for $5.  Taxi is an estimated $5 for the trip.  Parking is free of charge at the hotel.  There is public parking near Regenstrief but we don't yet know the cost of that parking.	This hotel is a converted apartment complex with large rooms with kitchenettes and a separate bedroom with a king sized bed.  It is located 0.7 miles from Regenstrief and there are sidewalks for walking to Regenstrief.  Book by calling the hotel directly at 1-317-536-7700 or using the link below.  The rate is $99 plus tax.  If you stay for the GT.M training, there appears to be a discount on that rate for an extended stay.  There is a fold out bed in the sitting area of each of the rooms.  There is complementary WiFi.  There are photos of the rooms at the registration link. http://ichotelsgroup.com/redirect?path=rates&brandCode=CW&regionCode=1&localeCode=en&GPC=WVB&hotelCode=INDWP&_PMID=99801505  There are a limited number of two bedroom suites available for an additional charge.

Bus Service from the Airport to downtown hotels:  From the baggage claim on lower level of terminal, walk outdoors to the Ground Transportation Center. From the upper level of the terminal, pass check-in counters and access Ground Transportation via the enclosed walkway.   Route 8 travels along Washington Street from the Airport to downtown, an approximately 45 minute travel time.  Once  downtown, Route 8 traverses Ohio Street for easy transfers with any other downtown route in the system and is within a 15 minute walk of most downtown hotels.  The fare is $1.75 and $.85 for those 65 and older.  There is a map on this web site showing where each downtown hotel is relative to the bus lines.  http://www.indygo.net/how-to-ride/airport-service/   If you take this bus, you will probably want to take a taxi from the bus stop to the Candlewood hotel for a charge of about $8.

Taxi:  Yellow/Checker Cab Co. - Approximate cost is $35 each way for airport transportation to Downtown hotels.  Candlewood Suites is not directly in the downtown area so the charge may vary from $35.

Hotel Shuttle:  Book online in advance for an airport shuttle service to the some of the hotels for $10 in the downtown area.  https://goexpresstravel.com/indy_express  You can take the bus to one of these hotels and the taxi service to the Candlewood Suites from there should be about $8.  Candlewood Suites

Driving:  Candlewood Suites does not charge for parking.  It appears that parking at the downtown hotels is usually $14 a day.

From Candlewood Suites.  There is a shuttlebus that holds about 10 people that leaves on the hour that will take you to Regenstrief for $5.  Taxi is an estimated $5 for the trip.  Parking is free of charge at the hotel.  There is public parking near Regenstrief but we don't yet know the cost of that parking.

From downtown hotels - There are several taxi services that have agreed to a $5 fare anywhere downtown.  A map of that area appears to include Regenstrief.  There is a pdf with a list of taxi companies that honor that fare as well and a map of the area included.  I called one taxi company that estimated the fare from Candlewood Suites would be an additional $8 in this same area.  Here is the link.  http://www.circlecityclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/taxi-service-dt-program.pdf  The #10 bus from the area of the downtown hotels goes to Regenstrief.  It runs every 20 minutes and the fare is $1.75.  The schedule and map of the route can be found here.  http://www.indygo.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/10W.pdf

Taxi Service - $5 regional fare within downtown. The regional center for taxis contains the area lying east of the White River, South of 12th Street, west of I‐65, and north of I‐70.

#10 bus:  The number 10 bus from IndyGo goes to Regenstrief and is accessible by a short walk from most downtown hotels.  The fare is $1.75.  It runs every 20 minutes.  The link for the bus route map and timetable is http://www.indygo.net/route/10-10th-street/

Walking: It is about 1.25 mile from the downtown hotels to the new Regenstrief building walking.

Guest Parking at Regenstrief:  May not be available but there is public parking available across the street by the hospitals.  We don't know the charge for that parking at this time.

About the 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 "living" 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.

Speakers

Speaker	Topic
Mary Hagar, Medsphere	Demo of the Indian Health Service's RPMS
Doug Martin, Regenstrief	Innovations project update
Chris Richardson	ENIGMA Machine in MUMPS in VistA for Encryption
Chris Rhodes, Director, Open Source Management, Strategic Investment Management (SIM), Office of Informatics & Analytics (OIA), Department of Veterans Affairs	VA's Software Intake Program - A status update.
Steve Oxley, CMO, Central Regional Hospital, North Carolina	Implementing VistA in North Carolina's Central Regional Hospital and VistA Flexibility: Meeting New Federal Requirements Using Templates and Reminders
Donna Ellis, Product Development Program Manager, Pharmacy Re-Engineering, VA	Pharmacy Update
Seong Ki Mun, CEO, OSEHRA	OSEHRA Update - ** Monday or Tuesday AM or early afternoon
Jason Hawsey, CPRS Developer, Department of Veterans Affairs	CPRS Update
Mike Henderson, Consultant, Open Source Projects	TBA
Alissa L. Russ,  Health Services Research Scientist, Roudebush VAMC and Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Adjunct Assistant Professor, Purdue University College of Pharmacy	Alternative designs for medication alerts that improve efficiency and medication safety** Tues or Wed before 11:30
Rob Tweed, M Gateway	GraphQL  An Overview and its huge potential for VistA
KS Bhaskar, FIS, Development Manager	Update on GT.M
Brian E. Dixon, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Fairbanks School of Public Health; Research Scientist, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute; Research Scientist, IU Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research Health Research Scientist, Center for Health Information and Communication, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Service, Roudebush VA Medical Center	Consolidating CCDs
Muriyesu Ferdinand, master's degree student at Tampere University of Technology/ Finland and IT Engineer at King Faisal Hospital Kigali/Rwanda	Open source Electronic Medical Records software, best option for low & middle income countries National Electronic Health Records
Alain Victor Itangishaka, master's degree student at Tampere University of Technology/ Finland	Open source Electronic Medical Records software, best option for low & middle income countries National Electronic Health Records
Jim Bell, retired VA developer	Open Source Adaptable GUI for Registration
Rob Silverman, PharmD, Program Manager, PBM Clinical Informatics, VA	Immunization Update, 5 VistA Enhancements
Paul Tibbits, MD, CIO Architecture, Strategy, and Design, Department of Veterans Affairs	TBA
Patrick Redington, Reminders Developer, VA	Reminders and Patient Care Encounter Update
Alan Montgomery, National Support for Reminders, VA	Reminders and Patient Care Encounter Update, Reminder Dialogs
Anthony Puleo, CPRS developer, Reminders Dialogs Developer, VA	Reminders and Patient Care Encounter Update, Reminder Dialogs, Technical Discussion Reminder Dialogs and Potential Enhancements
Ignacio Valdes	Astronaut VistA
Keith Magoon, Immunization Project Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs	Immunization Project Update
Sam Habiel, VistA Expertise Network	How to get Printers working with VistA, M Unit testing
Richard D Boyce, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Faculty, Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing, Faculty, Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Gero-Informatics  Research and Training Program, University of Pittsburgh	Comparison of and Requirements for Open Source Drug Interaction Databases ** Tuesday
Shaun Grannis, Interim Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute	Introduction to Regenstrief
Theresa Cullen, Associate Director, Global Health Informatics, Regenstrief Institute	Collaborating Across Decades - Is it Worth It?
Dan Cramer, Terminology Analyst, Mantech Mission Solutions & Services Group	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Kim Rowe , Lexicon VistA Developer	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Jeff Udell, Contract Project Manager, Mantech Mission Solutions & Services Group	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Alan Arnold, VA Program Manager, Standards and Terminology Services (STS) Sustainment and Collaborative Terminology & Data Managements (CTT&DM), NOT CONFIRMED	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Edgar Coffey - VA Project Manager, STS Sustainment NOT CONFIRMED	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Melissa Chin - Contract Project Manager - STS Sustainment NOT CONFIRMED	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Steve Brown, Knowledge Based Systems Group, DVA - NOT CONFIRMED	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service
Olivier Bodenreider, Chief, Cognitive Science Branch, National Library of Medicine	RxNorm Update
Roger Maduro, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Open Health News	The State of the Open Health Community and Tasks for 2016
Keith Michael, eHMP Product Manager	eHMP
Shane Mcnamee, Director, Development Section, Health Solutions Management, OIA, VHA	eHMP
Paul Biondich, ​Director, Global Health Informatics Program - Regenstrief,  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine	OpenMRS and Our Experiences Developing an Open Source Community
Ayman Ghaith - EHS Senior Developer from the Kingdom of Jordan	History of EHS Hakeem: Software point of view The Jordanization of VistA: Software Development
Ahmad Zubaidi- EHR Integration Team Leader from the Kingdom of Jordan	History of EHS Hakeem: Software point of view The Jordanization of VistA: Software Development
Linda S. Williams, Principal Investigator, VA HSR&D Precision Monitoring QUERI, Investigator, VA Center for Health Information and Communication, Professor of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.	e-Measurements from the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
Fabian Lopez,, DSS	Open Source vxVistA - Upcoming release update - Community contributions
Eddie Brito, DSS	Open Source vxVistA - Upcoming release update - Community contributions
Bob Ruff, Developer, VA	Reminder Dialogs
Nancy Van Ness, Translator, French Open Source Drug Database	French Open Source Drug Database
George Lilly, CIO WorldVistA, Director VEN	Open Source Drug Databases
David Whitten, CTO WorldVIstA and VistA System Manager, Central Regional Hospital	FIleman, HL7

Agenda

Day 1	Monday, January 11, 2016
Time	LOCATION Main Lobby Conference Room	Rm 209	Rm  325
8:00	Shaun Grannis - Introduction to Regenstrief
08:15	Introductions - Who, Why & Success Since networking and collaboration are the most important goals of VistA Community Meetings, an important activity at VistA Community Meetings is for all attendees to introduce themselves.  Each of us will take a maximum of 60 seconds to tell the group.  This is also an opportunity to ask for a session to be added that would help meet your needs: Who I am and what organization(s) I am associated with. What my interest in VistA is. What would make the meeting a success for me.
09:00	CPRS Update - Jason Hawsey
9:45	Consolidating CCDs - Brian E. Dixon
10:30	Break -  Sponsored By FIS-GT.M	Break
10:45	Reminders and Patient Care Encounter Update - Patrick Redington and Alan Montgomery
11:30	Patient Lists - Alan Montgomery
12:15	Lunch - Sponsored by FIS-GT.M	Lunch
13:15	Implementing VistA in North Carolina's Central Regional Hospital - Steve Oxley
14:00	Innovations Update - Doug Martin
14:45	Break - Sponsored by FIS-GT.M	Break
15:00	Open source Electronic Medical Records software, best option for low & middle income countries National Electronic Health Records - Muriyesu Ferdinand & Alain Victor Itangishaka
15:45	Open Source HIT Communities Discussion - Panel
16:30	VA Update and Discussion with the Deputy CIO  for Architecture, Strategy and Design - Paul Tibbits
17:15
Day 2	Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Time	LOCATION Main Lobby Conference Room	Rm 325	Rm 325
8:00	VistA Intake Program - Chris Rhodes
8:45	RPMS Demo - Mary Hagar
9:30	GT.M Update - KS Bhaskar
10:15	Break - Sponsored by DSS	Break
10:30	Analysis of Open Source Drug Databases - Richard Boyce	ENIGMA Machine in MUMPS in VistA for Encryption - Chris Richardson
11:15	Immunization Enhancement from the Joint VA, OSEHRA VIMM/Immunization Project - Robert Silverman	M Unit Testing - Sam Habiel
12:00	Lunch - Sponsored by DSS	Lunch
13:00	Collaborating Across Decades - Is it Worth It? - Theresa Cullen OpenMRS and Our Experiences Developing an Open Source Community  - Paul Biondich	OSEHRA Tools - Mike Henderson
	14:00 PM    GraphQL   An Overview and its huge potential for VistA  - Rob Tweed	1:45 PM   Reminder Dialogs - Anthony Puleo
14:30	Break - Sponsored by DSS	Break
14:45	Open Source vxVistA - Upcoming release update - Community contributions - Fabian Lopez and Eddie Brito
15:30	History of EHS Hakeem: Software point of view - Ayman Ghaith and Ahmad Zubaidi
16:15	Break
16:20	The Jordanization of VistA: Software Development  - Ayman Ghaith and Ahmad Zubaidi
17:15	Continue RPMS Demo - Mary Hagar - Only 15-20 minutes
Day 3	Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Time	LOCATION - Main Lobby Conference Room	Rm 209	Rm 325
08:00	e-Measurements from the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative - Linda Williams	Fileman 22.2 and 23 update - Russel Holt
08:45	Paul Tibbits
9:30	Alternative designs for medication alerts  that improve efficiency and medication safety - Alissa Russ	Astronaut VistA - Ignacio Valdes
10:15	Break
10:30	French Open Source Drug Interactions and Open Source Drug Interactions for the future  - Nancy Van Ness and George Lilly
11:15	The State of the Open Health Community and Tasks for 2016 - Roger Maduro	Reminder Dialog - Potential Enhancements Technical Discussion - Anthony Puleo
12:00	Lunch	Lunch
13:00	Reminders GUI - Kevin Toppenberg	The VistA Lexicon and the VA Standards and Terminology Service - Dan Cramer, Jeff Udell, Kim Rowe and possibly Alan Arnold, Melissa Chin, Edgar Coffey, et. al
13:45	eHMP - Shand Mcnamee and Keith Michael	How to get printers working with VistA - Sam Habiel
14:30	Break	Break
14:45	5 New VistA Utilities - Robert Silverman	Using Fileman - Dave Whitten
15:30	Pharmacy Update - Donna Ellis	HL7 - Dave Whitten
16:15
16:30
17:15