20th VistA Community Meeting

"The place to connect with people if you are serious about VistA"

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About the 20th 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.

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 is still a strong technical focus, there are increasingly discussions on other aspects, including implementation, support, demonstration, education, training, and WorldVistA organizational issues (e.g., membership).

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.

Living Agenda

The meeting's living agenda is evolving and will continue to evolve till the end of the meeting. The following is the current tentative list of speakers. To obtain a copy of the latest agenda please download a copy from here: Download Agenda .ODS Format or Download Agenda .XLS Format

Last Name	First Name	Topic(s)
Anthracite	Raymond	Open Source Licensing: Making sense of the alphabet soup, GPL, AGPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD and Eclipse
Behlendorf	Brian	The Connect project and the Apache License and why he feels a commercial friendly license like that helps to build community.
Bhaskar	KS	GT.M updates
Bokhari	Syed	Front office to back office communication and configuring note title parameters for efficiency. MA to Provider workflow using change author and additional signer techniques. Using complementary templates (MA-provider) to improve efficiency. Using progress note title objects to capture enduring social history, family hx etc. Problem list or note title? The capture of Social Hx, PHM, Surgical Hx etc. the outpatient encounter object as a billing tool Whoever does it, documents it: The MA/Nursing procedure template.
Dowling	Connor	To be confirmed: Semantic Web VistA
Hays	Howard	To be confirmed: What IHS is doing under the Recovery Act, in particular around Certification and Meaningful Use and "modernization".
King	Matt	Clinical configuration pearls, implementation management issues, quality reporting in VistA
Lilly	George	CCR/CCD Project update
Marshall	Rick	Revival of the MUMPS Development Committee
Mehling	Ben	Update on Medsphere.org releases
Richardson	Chris	Internationalization; De-Identification Strategies of what works and what does not; Creation of a new Test Database Scrambler
Timson	George	FileMan/Kernel presentation, emphasizing things that are not straightforwardly apparent in the Fileman documentation.
Valdes	Ignacio	One Small Step: Astronaut launches a full suite of new VistA products to meet the challenges of health information technology. Astronaut VistA Installers, Shuttle, and Training will be featured.

If you would like to make a presentation, please contact Joseph Dal Molin or Nancy Anthracite as soon as possible.

Tracks for VistA Community Meetings are ultimately decided by the attendees, their interests and their ability to present.  The planned tracks for the 20th VistA Community meeting will be presented shortly.

Registration

Registration is now open at the following link:  https://www.regonline.com/20th_vista_community_meeting_reg.  Early reduced registration rates end Friday, January 8th 2010.

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Sponsorships

Please contact Joseph Dal Molin or Nancy Anthracite if your organization would like to sponsor a lunch or breaks.

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 Joseph Dal Molin or Nancy Anthracite 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 or Joseph Dal Molin to request a waiver.

Location, Facilities, Lodging

The 20th VistA Community Meeting will take place at the Brickyard Artisan Court (BYAC) 7th & Mill Ave. on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.

The nearest airport is Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) from where a light rail service to the Tempe campus of ASU is now operational (exit at 3rd & Mill Ave).  [The PHX inter-terminal shuttle buses take you to the light rail stop.  Buy a ticket on the platform and take the rail going eastbound, towards Tempe.]

We are working on obtaining a block of rooms at the Marriott. The following are hotel/motel accommodation options.

Disclaimer: WorldVistA does not take any responsibility for the quality of the hotels on this list. All of these hotels are being provided as an alternative to the Marriott, but please be aware that you need to select your accommodations based on your own discretion.

Hotel Name	Address	Phone	Distance	Website
Marriott Courtyard	601 South Ash Avenue Tempe, Arizona 85281	(480) 966-2800		Call to obtain WorldVistA meeting rate.
Quality Inn At Asu - Airport	1375 East University Drive Tempe, AZ 85281 US	(480) 774-2500	1.4	http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-tempe-arizona-AZ213
Comfort Inn And Suites At Asu	1031 East Apache Boulevard Tempe, AZ 85281 US	(480) 966-7202	1.4	http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-tempe-arizona-AZ132
Super 8 Tempe-asu-airport	1020 East Apache Boulevard Tempe, AZ 85281 US	(480) 967-8891	1.4	http://www.tempesuper8.com
Days Inn Tempe Arizona State University	1221 East Apache Boulevard, Tempe, AZ 85281	(480) 968-7793	1.5	http://www.daysinn.com/DaysInn/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=00405
Motel 6 Phoenix Tempe Broadway	513 W Broadway Road Tempe, AZ 85282	(480) 967-8696	1.6	http://www.motel6.com/reservations/motel_detail.aspx?num=1303

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Event Contacts

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

Joseph Dal Molin / dalmolin *at* worldvista *dot* org

Madie Barber Dal Molin / madeline.joi *at* gmail *dot* com

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our appreciation to Arizona State University for hosting the meeting.