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19th VistA Community Meeting / June 18-21, 2009 National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD

What
  • VistA Community Meeting
When Jun 18, 2009 09:30 AM to
Jun 21, 2009 04:00 PM
Where National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD
Contact Name
Contact Phone +1 (973) 752-3730
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"The place to connect with people if you are serious about VistA"

Registration

Registration is now open.

IMPORTANT:

Due to security procedures, walk-in registration will not be available. To attend the meeting you must be registered within 24 hours in advance of the date you choose to attend. 

To be counted for lunch on Saturday and Sunday you must register by Tuesday 6/16 10:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time GMT -5:00)

Registration Fees (Full conference June 18 - 21)

  • $175 - Government Employees (active or retired) Click to register
  • $175 - Job seeker / Full-time students Click to registers
  • $300 - WorldVistA members in good standing (Link to registration page sent to members - see note below)

Lunches and food & drink at breaks are included in the fee.

WorldVistA Members in good standing will receive an e-mail with a URL for member registration.  If you believe you are currently a member in good standing and do not received an e-mail by May 7, 2009, please contact Peter Bodtke (e-mail address for contacts are at the end).

Scholarships & Waivers

In previous VistA Community Meetings, thanks to donations from benefactors, we were able to offer a limited number of "scholarships" to those who have the potential and interest in contributing to the VistA community, but who have not yet acquired the expertise to make technical contributions.  WorldVistA has decided to formalize these as the Tom Ackerman Memorial Scholarships.  In addition to funding scholarships with "current" donations, we would also like to establish a corpus from which to provide stable funding for scholarships to VistA events.  Please contact K.S. Bhaskar, Peter Bodtke or Maury Pepper to request a scholarship - or if you or your organization would like to make a donation to the Tom Ackerman Memorial Scholarship fund.  Donations can be made anonymously or as named funds that are publicly acknowledged.

If you are a WorldVistA member, and you will be making technical contributions to the conference, you may request a waiver of the conference fee.  Please contact Nancy Anthracite, K.S. Bhaskar, or Peter Bodtke to request a waiver.

Sponsorships

Please contact K.S. Bhaskar or Peter Bodtke if your organization would like to sponsor a lunch or breaks.

About the 19th 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.  VistA Community Meetings are highly interactive, hands-on, working meetings.  Please come prepared to contribute as well as to learn.

Please come prepared to discuss your interest in and work with VistA.  If you wish to present material, please come prepared with your presentation, either electronic or a poster.  There will be ample opportunities to present your work to others who are interested.

Location

National Library of Medicine
Building 38A
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland

Note: Due to site security walk-in registration will not be offered. Registration must be completed 24 hours before the date you plan to attend.

Area Airports

  • Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (12.0 mi)
  • Washington Dulles International Airport (25.4 mi)
  • Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (35.2 mi)

Lodging

Group rates have been negotiated:

American Inn of Bethesda
8130 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814

800-323-7081 (reservation)
301-656-9300 (main)
301-215-9163 (sales)

RATES (taxes not included)

Double beds $159 (Wednesday, Thursday) $99 (Friday, Saturday)
Queen bed $149 (Wednesday, Thursday) $89 (Friday, Saturday)

Group discount code "WorldVistA"
Discounted rate extended to 06/08/09 on an "as available" basis

Credit card required for a reservation.
Cancellation must be made 24 hours prior to arrival date.

Meeting Organization

If you would like to make a presentation, please contact K.S. Bhaskar or Peter Bodtke as soon as possible.

Tracks for VistA Community Meetings are ultimately decided by the attendees, their interests and their ability to present.  Below are the current tracks for the 18th VistA Community meeting.  Please contact the coordinators for more information on each track.  Please contact K.S. Bhaskar or Peter Bodtke to provide feedback and discuss the tracks themselves.

Living Agenda

The meeting's living agenda is still evolving and will continue to evolve till the end of the meeting.  Check back regularly.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

8:00
Arrive, network, pick up name tags
9:00
 Meeting Overview and Logistics (Auditorium)
9:15
  • National Library of Medicine Welcoming Remarks(Auditorium)
    Dr. Milton Corn, NLM's Deputy Director for Research & Education
9:30
 Attendee Introductions (Auditorium)

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:
  • 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.
10:45 Break - refreshments provided
11:00
  • Interoperable Health Information:  How Can NLM Help? - Keynote Address (Auditorium)
    Betsy Humphreys, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine
12:00
 Lunch
1:15
  • CCHIT Certification Program Update (Auditorium)
    Denis Wilson, CCHIT
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Basics
    Jane Willis - UMLS Support Coordinator
    Rachel Kleinsorge - UMLS Training Coordinator
2:00
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Update (Auditorium)
    NIST’s Activities in Health Information Technology: Past, Present & Future
    Bettijoyce Lide, Scientific Advisor and Program Coordinator, Health IT
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Demo - MetamorphoSys – A UMLS Installation, Customization and Browsing Tool
    Rachel Kleinsorge - UMLS Training Coordinator
    Steve Emrick -UMLS QA & Production Coordinator
    Suresh Srinivasan - Chief, Medical Language Branch
2:45
 Break - refreshments provided
3:00
  • Laika: EHR System and Network Compliance Testing Resource (Auditorium)
    Use Laika to test and verify that your product support standards-based information exchange capabilities and prepare for CCHIT certification
    Shauni Deshmukh, MITRE
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Demo - UMLS Knowledge Source Server (UMLSKS)
    Jane Willis - UMLS Support Coordinator
    Rachel Kleinsorge - UMLS Training Coordinator
    Karen Thorn - Senior Information Systems Specialists
  • Advisory Council Meetings
    • Vendor Advisory Council (Visitors Center) [by invitation only, please]
    • User Advisory Council (Room B1N20) [by invitation only, please]
3:45
  • Behavioral and Mental Disorders: Terminologies and Open Standards for Quality Improvement (Auditorium)
    An evidence-based medicine approach is presented for developing:
    • Terminologies and controlled clinical vocabularies for screening, diagnosis, case management, treatment outcome evaluation and quality of care measurement for behavioral and mental disorders
    • Decision support for clinical problem-solving at the point of care
    • Educational resources for patients, families and caregivers to support collaborative decision making with their clinical teams
    • Open standards for clinical and translational research to advance prevention, health promotion and improved quality of care at a sustainable cost.
      Saul Rosenberg, PhD,  University of California, San Francisco
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    RxTerms
    Dr. Kin Wah Fung - Staff Scientist
  • (Continued) Advisory Council Meetings [by invitation only, please]
4:30
  • Overview of Jordan's National VistA Implementation Initiative (Auditorium)
    This presentation will provide an overview of Jordan's ground breaking initiative to build on the lessons learned in the developed world and in particular the US Veterans Administration. The presentation will focus on how Jordan is leveraging WorldVistA EHR to create an open source, national health IT infrastructure.
    Co-presenters:
    Joseph Dal Molin, President, e-cology corporation, VP WorldVistA
    Feras Kamal, Cheif Operating Officer, Electronic Health Solutions, Jordan
5:00
 Dinner - on your own

 

Friday, June 19, 2009

8:45
 Announcements and introduction of those not previously introduced (Auditorium)
9:00
  • Health It Strategic Development (Auditorium)
    A Strategic Assessment of Selected Health IT Sections Of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
    Marc Wine, Consultant
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    RxNorm - A Standardized Nomenclature for Clinical Drugs
    Dr. Stuart Nelson - Head, Medical Subject Headings Section
9:45
  • Presentation by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Auditorium)
    Jessica Kahn, CMS
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
    Dr. Clem McDonald – Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
10:30 Break - refreshments provided
10:45
  • VistA/RPMS and the Virtual Center for Collaboration, Open Source, and Innovation (COSI) in Healthcare (Auditorium)
    An update on VistA/RPMS activities in West Virginia and Shepherd University Research Corporation (SURC) as it works to -
    1. Facilitate an ‘open source’ health information technology (HIT) software exchange
    2. Facilitate knowledge exchange on a range of  'open' Health IT solutions
    3. Facilitate collaboration on grant proposals to develop innovative new 'open' software solutions in healthcare
    4. Provide key links to ‘open source’ HIT news sources, studies, books, organizations, educational resources, etc.
    5. Collaborate with selected partners on the implementation of VistA/RPMS and other 'open' Health IT solutions in West Virginia and other States.
    Peter Groen, Director SURC
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT)
    Dr. John Kilbourne - Medical Officer
  • Nationwide Health Information Network Connect Gateway (OCCS Room B1N20)
    Dr. Steve Steffensen
11:30
  • Presentation from Indian Health Service (Auditorium)
    RPMS development activities and I.H.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 projects
    Dr. Howard Hays, RPMS Program Manager
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Demo - Personal Health Record (PHR) System 
    Dr. Clem McDonald – Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
  • The Astronaut VistA Installer Suite (OCCS Room B1N20)
    A new paradigm for VistA. The Astronaut VistA Installer suite and its underlying VistA Standard Base (VSB) specification will be discussed. A WorldVistA installation will be demonstrated live using Astronaut. Astronaut frees implementers, developers and users from many of the chores of VistA installation while providing a standard, repeatable, platform. It is hoped that this 'common currency' made possible by Astronaut will allow widespread deployment and novel applications to occur.
    Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS, Executive Director Harris County Health Information Cooperative
12:15
 Lunch - provided
1:30
  • EHR Implementation: An Operational Approach for "Meaningful Use" (Auditorium)
    1. Re-engineer clinical processes to efficiently use an EHR while improving patient quality
    2. Structure data for quality reporting in chronic disease and preventative care
    3. Rapid training and implementation cycle designed to minimize productivity loss.
    4. Clinical Template development for data capture and improved provider speed
    5. Chronic Disease Reporting from the VistA EHR
    Matthew King, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Clinica Adelante
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Demos: DailyMed
    Dr. Stuart Nelson - Head, Medical Subject Headings Section
2:15
  • (Continued) EHR Implementation: An Operational Approach for "Meaningful Use" (Auditorium)
    Matthew King, MD, Clinica Adelante
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Demos: MyMedicationList
    Dr. Stuart Nelson - Head, Medical Subject Headings Section
3:00
 Break - refreshments provided
3:15
  • Presentation by Health Resources and Services Administration (Auditorium)
    Johanna Barraza-Cannon and Jeffrey Weinfeld, HRSA
  • Clinical Data Integration
    Achieving Comprehensive Care for Chronic Illness through Integrating Medical-Dental Care and Data
    Valerie J H Powell RT(R) PhD - University Professor, Robert Morris University
    Frank Din - Executive Director of the Medical Informatics Center of Excellence, HP/EDS
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    Controlled Vocabularies for the Problem List
    Dr. Kin Wah Fung - Staff Scientist
4:00
  • CCR/CCD Project Update - RXNorm support for VistA and RPMS (Auditorium)
    The CCR/CCD project is developing support for extract and import of Continuity Of Care XML documents on VistA and RPMS. The export currently includes automatic coding using RxNorm of medications on both platforms. This presentation will cover current status and future plans for the project.
    George Lilly and Sam Habiel
  • Advisory Council Meetings
    • Vendor Advisory Council (Visitors Center) [by invitation only, please]
    • User Advisory Council (Room B1N20) [by invitation only, please]
  • National Library of Medicine Track (NLM Visitor Center)
    SPECIALIST tools – A Lexicon of Biomedical Terms
    Allen Browne - Information Research Specialist
    Guy Divita - Computer Scientist
4:45
 Regroup & debrief
 5:00  Dinner - on your own

 

Saturday, June 20, 2009

8:45
 Announcements and introduction of those not previously introduced (Auditorium)
9:00
  • Database encryption of GT.M (Auditorium)
    K.S. Bhaskar, Fidelity National Information Systems
  • OntoVistA = Ontology + VistA (NLM Visitor Center)
    A collaboration to make ontology implicit in VistA an explicit representation in a semantic web/ontology format. This talk will address issues which can enhance the safety and interoperability of the national treasure that is VistA
    David Whitten
 9:45
  • OpenVista Technologies (Auditorium)
    Open projects, technologies and releases from medsphere.org (OV Server, CIS, OVID, GT.M, and other releases) – Ben Mehling and Jon Tai
10:30 Break - refreshments provided
10:45
  • Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre's multi-year clinical transformation program: The Selection Process. (Auditorium)
    The implementation road map to a comprehensive patient EMR framework, supporting quality-of-care and research objectives, and become the best-in-class oncology care institution in the region.
    Udai Kumar (on behalf of RGCI)
  • Using Virtual Machine with VistA (NLM Visitor Center)
    John Leo Zimmer
11:30
  • Vendor Presentations (Auditorium)
    • Medsphere, Ben Mehling
    • OHUM, Udai Kumar
  • Mirth Connect Presentation
    Open Source Healthcare Interoperability Tool
    Will Hartung, Mirth Corporation
12:15
 Lunch - provided
1:30
  • Special Presentation: Topic TBD (Auditorium)
    Dr. Robert Kolodner
2:15
  • Vendor Presentations (Auditorium)
    • VISTA Expertise Network, Owen Hermsen
    • DSS, Mike Ginsberg
  • New Developments in VistA Web Services (NLM Visitor Center)
    Brian Lord, Sequence Managers Software
3:00
 Break - refreshments provided
3:15
  • e-Primary Care Network Projects (Auditorium)
    Kevin Peterson, University of Minnesota
4:00
  • Adapting VistA Through Configuration, not Code (Auditorium)
    Syed Bokhari, Clinical Applications Coordinator, Clinica Adelante
  • Advisory Council Meetings
    • Vendor Advisory Council (Visitors Center) [by invitation only, please]
    • User Advisory Council (Room B1N20) [by invitation only, please]
4:45
 Regroup & debrief
5:00  Dinner - on your own

 

Sunday, June 21, 2009

9:00 The WorldVistA Executive Team on the Spot (Auditorium)
Nancy Anthracite, Peter Bodtke, Joseph Dal Molin, Larry Landis, George Lilly, Maury Pepper, Chris Richardson, Colin Smith and Dave Whitten of the WorldVistA Executive Team will be at the front of the room for any WorldVistA organizational issues or discussion that any member wishes to raise.
9:45
  • Comply (Auditorium)
    Software Quality Assurance verification tool
    Chris Richardson, WorldVistA
10:30
 Break - refreshments provided
10:45
  • De-Identification of Patient Records (Auditorium)
    Chris Richardson
  • Hands-on VistA Installation & Configuration Workshop (OCCS Room B1N20)
    Nancy Anthracite
11:30
  • VistA Software Development Life Cycle and TRAC Server (NLM Visitor Center)
    Raymond Anthracite
    David Whitten, WorldVistA
  • Hands-on VistA Installation & Configuration Workshop (OCCS Room B1N20)
    Nancy Anthracite
12:15
 19th VistA Community Meeting Meeting Review - Working Lunch (provided)
Boxed lunches will be available early so that those who need to catch flights can grab a box and leave.
  • Closing discussions
  • Feedback to organizers
  • Action items / follow-up
  • Hands-on VistA Installation & Configuration Workshop (OCCS Room B1N20)
    Nancy Anthracite
1:30
  • Hands-on VistA Installation & Configuration Workshop (OCCS Room B1N20)
    Nancy Anthracite
2:00
 Depart
  • Meeting organizers and WorldVistA executive team members are requested to stay behind to debrief

 

If you have been involved with a recent implementation of VistA in your organization, please contact us as soon as possible - we would very much like to schedule time for you to share a report with the community.

[Please contact K.S. Bhaskar or Peter Bodtke with presentation suggestions or to volunteer to give a presentation.]

VistA Installation & Configuration Workshop

Coordinated by Nancy Anthracite

    • The server side of WorldVistA EHR is a pure MUMPS application for which there are two reference stacks: a FOSS stack of GT.M on Linux and a proprietary stack of Caché on Windows.   Support is available on commercial terms (not from WorldVistA) for both FOSS and proprietary stacks.  A hybrid approach of a FOSS software appliance (virtual machine of WorldVistA EHR on GT.M on Linux) on a computer running Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, etc. is also feasible.  If you come with a computer, you will be able to leave with WorldVistA EHR running on it in on your choice of one of the three configurations.  Please note:
      • For the complete FOSS stack:
        • If you want Linux installed on your hard drive, you will be able to do this at the meeting.  If you are running another OS, please defragment your hard drive beforehand and ensure that you have at least 5GB free.  The installation process will create a new partition from the free space and configure your PC to dual boot.  If you plan to do this, back up your PC before you come to the workshop - although the installation is generally safe, we don't want your PC to be the exception.
        • If you already have Linux installed, please ensure you have 2GB free space on your hard drive.
        • All the software to be installed is FOSS and will be provided at the meeting.
      • For the hybrid approach, please ensure that you have 3GB free space, either on your hard drive, or on a USB drive.  All the software to be installed is FOSS and will be provided at the meeting.
      • For the proprietary stack, since WorldVistA can distribute FOSS but cannot distribute proprietary software, please ensure that you have legal licenses for the stack, and also ensure that your hard drive has at least 2GB free.
      • Regardless of your choice of software stack, configuring the WorldVistA EHR application for your institution or practice is the same and the same level of application functionality is available on either stac

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our appreciation to Dr. Simon Liu and the National Library of Medicine for hosting the meeting.

Event Contacts

Nancy Anthracite / nancy *at* worldvista *dot* org

K.S. Bhaskar / bhaskar *at* worldvista *dot* org

Peter Bodtke / pbodtke *at* worldvista *dot* org

Larry Landis / ldl *at* gmail *dot* com

George Lilly /glilly *at* worldvista *dot* org

 Maury Pepper / mpepper *at* worldvista *dot* org

Chris Richardson / rcr *at* rcresearch *dot* us

Dave Whitten / whitten *at* worldvista *dot* org

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