35th VistA Community Meeting

College of Health and Human Services

chhs.gmu.edu

Lodging

Hotel Name	Address	Phone	Transportation	Notes
Comfort Inn University Center	11180 Fairfax Blvd. Fairfax, Virginia  22030	(703) 591-5900	Free Shuttle to GMU and Metro. CUE bus (not free) route also includes GMU campus and Metro.	Ask for "WorldVistA" rate of $85 per night.  Cutoff is July 27, and the regular rate after that is $169, so please register early!  Free Internet & WiFi. Free Continental Breakfast included.  For now call the hotel and ask for the WorldVistA Meeting rate.  During business hours, if you have problems registering, ask to speak with Tia Major..

Travel from the Airports and to George Mason University from the Comfort Inn

From BWI: you can take Marc or Amtrac to Union Station or you can take the Metrobus route B30 express service between Metrorail's Greenbelt Station and BWI Airport.  Once you get to the Metro, you take that to Vienna.  There is more information about that below.  Full fare for a one-way trip on the bus is $7.00. See Metro's B30 Time table and other information here: Brochure and Schedule  http://www.wmata.com/bus/timetables/md/b30.pdf

From Ronald Regan/Washington National Airport: The Ronald Regan National Airport has a Metro station.  Take the Metro to the Vienna Metro Station at the end of the Orange Line.

From Dulles Airport, take the Silver Line Express Bus to the new Silver Line Weihle-Reston East Metro station.  The fare is $5 (each way).  From there, switch at the East Falls Church Metro Station and  take the orange line to the Vienna Station. The bus schedule is here:  http://www.flydulles.com/sites/default/files/slexpress_timetable_0.pdf .

More information about travel to and from the airports can be found here: http://www.commuterpage.com/metroconnect.htm

The Vienna Metro Station is on the Orange Line. At the Vienna Metro station there are taxi stands; if no taxi, call 703-883-0199 (Fairfax Yellow Cab-North side of station) or 703-943-4444 (Red Top Cab.)  There is also the Gold 2 Cue bus that stops on the Germantown Road side of the parking lot for Comfort Inn.  The schedule for that is here:  http://www.fairfaxva.gov/government/public-works/transportation-division/cue-bus/gold-2-schedule.  This same bus goes to George Mason University and stops at Shenandoah  River`Parking Deck, #42 on the map, which is about a 1/4 mile walk to the Hub, which is where the meeting is held, along Chesapeake River Lane.  The fare is $1.75.

Use the map to get from there  to meeting which will be held in The Hub (the old Student Union II) , which is #56 on the map.  

Driving: Should you decide to drive, the Shenandoah (formerly Sandy Creek) Parking Deck  (#43 in purple on the maps) is the most convenient to the meeting.  The meeting is on the top floor of the "The Hub" (formerly Student Union II where we met in 2011) , which is #56 in red on the maps.    Parking is $14 a day at any of the garages on campus BUT you may need to have a special permit to be able to use some of those garages.  However, the Shenandoah Parking Deck has guest parking on the lower lever.  The address of The Hub is 10423 Rivianna River Lane,  Fairfax VA 22030 on Google Maps.  The entrance to the Shenandoah Parking Deck is the first driveway on the left off of Sandy Creek Way, which is a short road off of Patriot Circle and it is behind The Hub.  From the garage, cross Sandy Creek Way and follow the footpath over the stream to the back of The Hub.  Take the back entrance into the the bottom floor of The Hub.  Take the elevator or the wide staircase up to the top floor which is the third floor to get to the meeting.  There is an information desk in the lobby of The Hub.  The telephone number for it is 703-993-2859 in case you get lost on the way.

Hotel Shuttle to GMU: If you are going to be staying in the Comfort Inn, you can take the Gold Cue 2 Bus from the North Side of the Vienna Metro Station for $1.75 cash (exact change only) or with a SmartTrip card.  There is shuttle bus service from the hotel to the campus so you could also take the shuttle and then call the hotel for pickup from the campus, (703) 591-5900. Schedule a ride and reserve a seat on the shuttle at the Comfort Inn front desk. 

Public Transportation to GMU: On the weekends, the shuttle does not run so we will have to organize transportation among ourselves to the training meeting (which will likely not be difficult) or take the bus that stops near the Hotel on the Germantown Road between the Hotel and the super market and stops on the campus.  That is the Gold 2 Cue Bus and information about that route is here:  http://www.fairfaxva.gov/home/showdocument?id=188
 It stops at the Shenandoah River Parking Deck which is #42 on the campus map and there is about a 1/4 mile walk along Chesapeake River Lane to the Hub building where the meeting is, which is # 56 on the campus map.  You will also have a good chance of being able to get a ride over to the meeting with someone staying at the hotel and going to the meeting who has a car.

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
Seong Ki Mun, CEO OSEHRA	OSEHRA Update *Sunday
Ravi Shankar, Florida Atlantic University	Platform Independent smart phone apps for patient empowerment: A brief tutorial
Allotey Addo, ACA Health Services Ltd, Ghana	TBA
KS Bhaskar, YottaDB	YottaDB Update * Friday
Christopher Edwards, KRM Inc.	VistA running in Docker Containers
Guilherme Del Fiol, U of Utah	Infobuttons from VHA Innovations * Friday 11:15, 13:15, 15:00 or 16:45
Dr. P.J. Maddox, Professor and Chair Department of Health Admin. and Policy, George Mason University	Health Policy Update
Robert Durkin, VA Developer	Over view of his multiple class 2 and class 3 projects *Friday AM
Elizabeth Floto, VA Innovation Specialist, eScreening System Coordinator	Mental Health eScreening
Marilyn M. Lynn, National Clinical Executive, VHA National Surgery Office	Surgical Risk Calculator *Saturday AM for Denver
Brian Stevenson, Acting Grassroots Portfolio Leader, Team 3 Project Leader, VHA  Innovation Program	Pseudovet - A new innovations project to provide realistic synthetic patient data
Joseph Snyder, OSEHRA	Vivian and "Unfulfilled Requirements"
Rob Tweed	QEWD, JSON Web Tokens and Micro-Services
Ben Irwin, Software Engineer	Diagramming VistA Routines
Jose Lago, Intellica Corporations	Remote ordering Innovations Project plus others
Dylan Hall, Mitre Corp.	Synthea Synthetic Patients *Friday
Ignacio Valdes, Astronaut	VistA WIthout Limits
Ross Fletcher, Chief of Staff Emeritus at the Washington DC VC	The Future
Anthony Puleo, Reminders and CPRS Developer for the VA	Planned Reminder Dialog New Functionality
Joel Ivey, Retired VA Developer	Complicated Searches in VistA
Richard Davis, Retired from VA and MUMPS Coordinating Committee	System Architecture
Rick Marshal, VistA Expertise Network	Early Lung Cancer Screening
George Lilly, CIO of WorldVistA, Director of VIstA Expertise Network, MUMPS Developer	Seeing Synthea Test Patients on VistA

Agenda

Day 1	Friday, August 11, 2017
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	Room 4 & 5, Top Floor, The Hub	Room 1 & 2 Top Floor, The Hub
	VistA Community Meeting Main Room This meeting will (hopefully) be recorded and headset or dial-in should work for audio.  Please mute your phone if you are not speaking and please remember not to put your phone on hold if it plays music!  If you are presenting and plan to use computer audio, please try to have a headset on hand. Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smart phone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/197677525 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3122 Access Code: 197-677-525
08:45	Introductions - Who, Why & Success Since networking and collaboration are the most important goals of VistA Community Meetings, an important activity at VistA Community Meetings s 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.
09:45	Over view of his multiple class 2 and class 3 projects - Robert Durkin
10:30	Synthea Synthetic Patients - Dylan Hall	Break
11:15	Infobuttons from VHA Innovations - Guilherme Del Fiol
12:00	Lunch - Sponsored by YottaDB	Lunch
13:15	YottaDB Update - KS Bhaskar
14:00	Panorama - Sam Habiel
14:45	Break - Sponsored by YottaDB	Break
15:00	Health Policy Update - PJ Maddox
15:45	VistA running in Docker Containers - Christopher Edwards
16:45	Planned Reminder Dialog New Functionality - Anthony Puleo
Day 2	Saturday, August 12, 2017
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	. Room 4 &5 - The Hub
	VistA Community Meeting Main Room This meeting will (hopefully) be recorded and headset or dial-in should work for audio.  Please mute your phone if you are not speaking and please remember not to put your phone on hold if it plays music!  If you are presenting and plan to use computer audio, please try to have a headset on hand. Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smart phone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/197677525 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3122 Access Code: 197-677-525	VistA Community Meeting Breakout Room This meeting will (hopefully) be recorded a headset or dial-in should work for audio.  Please mute your phone if you are not speaking and please remember not to put your phone on hold if it plays music!  If you are presenting and plan to use computer audio, please try to have a headset on hand. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/311498981 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (646) 749-3122 Access Code: 311498981
9:00	VistA for Ghana - Allotey Addo
9:45	System Architecture - Richard Davis Please download this PDF. http://opensourcevista.net/NancysVistAServer/RichardDavisFinal-MSYS-VersionEdit8-9-2017.pdf
10:30	Break Sponsored by DSS	Break
10:45	Surgical Risk Calculator - Marilyn M. Lynn	Continuation Round table with Richard Davis will be on a second GoToMeeting listed three cells above this one in this table.. Please download this PDF. http://opensourcevista.net/NancysVistAServer/RichardDavisFinal-MSYS-VersionEdit8-9-2017.pdf
11:30	Pseudovet - Brian Stevenson
12:15	Lunch - Sponsored by	Lunch
13:15	Platform Independent smart phone apps for patient empowerment: A brief tutorial - Ravi Shankar Please look at the pages 2 & 3 of the following document at least 40 minutes before this tutorial and install the application that will be discussed in the tutorial. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7jUPhHDMEHoLUI4Y2xQUzFJMTA?usp=sharing Also you can download the incremental source code for the applications here http://opensourcevista.net/NancysVistAServer/RaviShankarMeteorFiles/
14:00	Seeing Synthea Test Patients on VistA - George Lilly
14:45	Break	Break
15:00	Early Lung Cancer Screening - Rick Marshall
15:45	Open Discussion of What if the VA Stops Using VistA?
16:30	QEWD, JSON Web Tokens and Micro-Services - Rob Tweed
17:15	Open Discussion of What if the VA Stops Using VistA? (continued)
Day 3	Sunday, August 13, 2017
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	Room 4 & 5 - The Hub
	VistA Community Meeting Main Room This meeting will (hopefully) be recorded and headset or dial-in should work for audio.  Please mute your phone if you are not speaking and please remember not to put your phone on hold if it plays music! If you are presenting and plan to use computer audio, please try to have a headset on hand. Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smart phone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/197677525 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3122 Access Code: 197-677-525	VistA Community Meeting Breakout Room This meeting will (hopefully) be recorded a headset or dial-in should work for audio.  Please mute your phone if you are not speaking and please remember not to put your phone on hold if it plays music!  If you are presenting and plan to use computer audio, please try to have a headset on hand. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/311498981 You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (646) 749-3122 Access Code: 311498981
09:00	EHS Hakeem in Jordan - Feras Kamal
9:45	Mental Health eScreening - Elizabeth Floto
10:30	Break	Break
10:45	OSEHRA Update - Seong Ki Mun	Debugging session for Mental Health eScreening - Java and M Help needed
11:00	VistA in the Tennessee Department of Health - John Roberts
11:45	Vivian and "Unfulfilled Requirements" - Joseph Snyder	Open Discussion of Time Zone Issues with VistA leadoff by Chris Richardson
12:15	Lunch - Sponsored by	Lunch
13:00	Open Source Drug Interactions in VistA - Sam Habiel
13:45	YottaGraf - George Lilly	Diagramming VistA Routines - Ben Irwin http://bmirwin.com/vnode/dg/Bens_Presentation.pdf
14:30	Break	Break
14:45	Complicated Searches in VistA - Joel Ivey https://github.com/joelivey/KBBPY-VistA-Show-and-Query	Internationalization of VistA - Chris Richardson
15:30	VistA WIthout Limits - Ignacio Valdes	Enhancements to Enigma - Chris Richardson http://opensourcevista.net/NancysVistAServer/ChrisRichardson-Enigma-HolographicRecord-2017-08-25-16.16-001.mp4
	Legend: * time constraints