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 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
  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)
  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
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
  October
2004
  Eleventh VistA Community Meeting: Hewlett-Packard Office, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
VistA classes, installation, projects, brainstorming, and organization.
sponsor: WorldVistA
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
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
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:
  • British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee (BCS HIC)
  • IMIA Open Source Working Group (IMIA OSWG)
  • IMIA-NI Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Group (OSNI)
  • Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development (CHIRAD)
  • Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA)
  • Health Informatics Europe (HIA)
  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
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
March
2003
eGovOS Conference: Washington, DC, USA
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
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
  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:
  • The National Health Service of the UK
  • Minoru Development Corporation
  • e-cology Corporation
  • 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

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