Past Events
| July 2006 |
13th World VistA Community Meeting, Building Sustainable, Global, Collaborative Development of VistA, Sewall Conference Center Robert Morris University, Moon Township Campus, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. WorldVistA would like to thank Robert Morris University for supporting the VistA community by sponsoring this meeting. |
| April 2006 |
Open Source and Sustainability Conference, Said Business School, Oxford, UK. "Developing an Open Source Health Information System for the 21st Century" presented by Colin Smith, Vice-President WorldVistA. |
| November 2005 |
World Summit on the Information Society: Kram Exhibition Park, Tunis, Tunisia Worldwide discussion about bridging the digital divide, with a joint Information and Communication Technologies for All platform sponsor: United Nations host: Government of Tunisia |
| October 2005 |
OpenVistA R&D Meeting: Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Patching OpenVistA; building web interfaces to OpenVistA; team programming. The OpenVistA programming team will meet to code together. sponsor: |
| April 2005 |
Twelfth VistA Community Meeting:
InterSystems Office, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Spring Conference: VistA tutorials, OpenVistA installs & programming, WorldVistA strategy for 2005. sponsor: WorldVistA host: InterSystems Corporation |
| May 2005 |
OpenVistA R&D Meeting: WorldVistA Office,
Seattle, Washington, USA Patching OpenVistA; building web interfaces to OpenVistA; team programming. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| February 2005 | OpenVistA GUI Development Meeting: Best Western Garden Inn, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Research and programming meeting: building web interfaces to OpenVistA; m2web; technology survey. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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January 2005 |
Trans-Pacific Open Source Software Conference (TPOSSCON):
Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Strategic sessions between participants from both sides of the Pacific. sponsor: Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) |
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January 2005 |
OpenVistA GUI Development Meeting: WorldVistA Office, Pittsburg, California, USA Research and programming meeting: building web interfaces to OpenVistA; m2web; technology survey. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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November December 2004 |
The Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Conference 2004:
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, USA The Impact and Promise of Technology & Innovation on the Future of Healthcare. sponsor: The Emergent Group |
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October 2004 |
Eleventh VistA Community Meeting:
Hewlett-Packard Office, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA VistA classes, installation, projects, brainstorming, and organization. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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June 2004 |
Tenth VistA Community Meeting:
University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, Washington, USA VistA as a Teaching Tool. Building the VistA Community. OpenVistA Goes Live. Installing OpenVistA. Most of the WorldVistA executive team attended this meeting. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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April 2004 |
eHealth Asia 2004 Conference:
Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Presentations and exhibitions about health informatics. President Rick Marshall and Director Joseph Dal Molin represented WorldVistA at this conference. sponsors: Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA) International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics APAMI Ministry of Health Malaysia |
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March 2004 |
Ninth VistA Community Meeting:
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Building the VistA community, developing OpenVistA 3, installation and configuration, documentation. The entire executive team attended the meeting. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| February 2004 | First Open Steps Think Tank:
Marwell Hotel, Hampshire, United Kingdom Invitation-only thinktank on open source and free software in health informatics. Director Joseph Dal Molin represented WorldVistA at this conference. sponsors: |
| December 2003 |
World Summit on the Information Society
and joint Information and Communication Technologies for Development platform: Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland WorldVistA representatives met with delegates from around the world and presented OpenVistA. sponsor: United Nations |
| December 2003 |
Fourth Open Source Health Care Alliance Conference:
University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland The alliance made a commitment to drafting standards for medical informatics packages, for evaluating current open-source medical informatics software in terms of those standards, and then collaborating on joint ventures that combine the best features of the various software packages. sponsor: OSHCA and University Hospital of Geneva |
| October 2003 |
Eighth VistA Community Meeting:
The Royal, Norcross, Georgia, USA Work on OpenVistA 3, presentations on OpenVistA and Berlin Heart Heart Institute, installation and configuration, documentation, VistA community planning. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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June 2003 |
Seventh VistA Community Meeting:
Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, California, USA OpenVistA 2.51, installation and configuration, documentation. sponsor: WorldVistA host: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
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March 2003 |
eGovOS Conference: Washington, DC, USA |
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February March 2003 |
Sixth VistA Community Meeting:
HP Expertise Center, Green Belt, Maryland, USA VistA's 21st birthday party, underground reunion, Health-e-Vet presentation, installation and configuration, documentation. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| November 2002 |
Fifth VistA Community Meeting: UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Work on OpenVistA 2.5, installation and configuration, documentation. sponsor: WorldVistA host: University of California at Los Angeles |
| November 2002 |
Third Open Source Health Care Alliance Conference:
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Presentations and roundtables on open-source medical informatics. sponsor: UCLA School of Medicine |
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August 2002 |
Fourth VistA Community Meeting: Medsphere, Aliso Viejo, California, USA Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, documentation, work on WorldVistA incorporation, discussion of verification standards, VistA History presentation. sponsor: WorldVistA |
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April 2002 |
Third VistA Community Meeting: Sanchez Offices, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, documentation. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| January 2002 |
Second VistA Community Meeting: Birmingham VA Field Office, Birmingham, Alabama, USA Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| November 2001 |
First VistA Community Meeting: Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, presentation on object orientation. sponsor: WorldVistA |
| September 2001 |
Second Open Source Health Care Alliance Meeting:
Forte Posthouse Kensington Hotel, London, UK Presentations and discussions about open-source medical informatics, session on "Healthcare for Humanity" (WorldVistA). sponsors: |
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July 2001 |
Rune Development Group Meeting: Oakland Federal Building, Oakland, California, USA Work on object-oriented (OO) extensions to Standard MUMPS, decision to set aside OO work to create OpenVistA. sponsor: MUMPS Development Committee |