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 | ||
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| Day 1 | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 16:00 | |||
| 16:45 |
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| Day 2 | Saturday, January 17, 2015 |
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| 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
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