23rd VistA Community Meeting May 23-25, 2011

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

 

23rd VistA Community Meeting, May 23-25, 2011

 at

Student Union Building II at George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia

Co-Hosted by

GMU Center for Health Information Technology
GMU Center for Discovery Science and Health Informatics

Registration

 Click here to register.

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 "VistA Community Meeting" rate of $79 per night. Cutoff is May 15, but group rate will be honored if room is available. Free Internet & WiFi. Free Continental Breakfast included.

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 $6.00. See Metro's B30 Time table and other information here: Brochure http://www.wmata.com/bus/b30_brochure.cfm  Schedule  http://www.wmata.com/bus/timetables/md/B30.pdf

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 the Dulles Airport, take the Washington Flyer Coach (Bus) Service to the Falls Church Metro Station.  The schedule is here: http://www.washfly.com/flyer_bus_schedule.htm

It is $10 on way or $18 round trip.  From the Falls Church Station, you can take the orange line to the Vienna Station.

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.   The George Mason Shuttle is free and should run on the hour and half hour from the North side of the Vienna  station in the summer which this will be. http://shuttle.gmu.edu/masontometro.html  At the Vienna Metro station there are taxi stands; if no taxi, call 703-941-4000 (Fairfax Yellow Cab-North side of station) or 703-943-4444 (Red Top Cab.)

If you take the shuttle, get off at the Sandy Creek Parking Garage and use the map (pdf link below) to get from there  to meeting which will be held in Student Union II which is #56 on the map. http://info.gmu.edu/FairfaxMap10lttr.pdf

Should you decide to drive, in the Sandy Creek Parking Garage is the most convenient to the meeting.  The meeting is on the top floor of the Student Union II building. Parking is $12 a day at any of the garages on campus.

If you are going to be staying in the Comfort Inn, you can take the Gold Cue Bus from the North Side of the Vienna Metro Station for $1.70 or $1.50 with a SmartTrip card.  There is shuttle bus service from the hotel to the campus so you could also take the George Mason 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.

About the 23rd 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.

The last few meetings an this one are special as there will be VistA domain experts from the VA  discussing their current work an plans for the future.  Roger Baker, the CIO for the VA and Peter Levin, the CTO will also be speaking.  With the VA RFP for Open Source VistA being a hot topic for discussion, this meeting may be the most interesting meeting yet.

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 George Mason University College of Health and Human Services and the School of Health Administration and Policy for hosting the meeting.

Fidelity Information Services which provides the community with GT.M will be hosting a lunch.

 Speakers

Speaker	Topic
Peggy Maddox, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Administration and Policy Co-Director of the HIT Center George Mason University	Tuesday, May 24th, 3:45 to 4:45
Roger Baker, CIO, Department of Veterans Affairs
Peter Levin, CTO, Department of Veterans Affair has been replaced by Michael O'Neil (5/19/2011  change)
Michael O'Neil, Project Manager for the RFP for the Custodial Agent for Open Source VistA	Tuesday, May 24, 2:45-3:30
Patricia Abbott, Johns Hopkins University	Panel on Open Source VistA in Education
Paul Faulkenstein, Northern Virginia Community College	Panel on Open Source VistA in Education
Edward Meagher, VP CSC & Industry Advisory Council	Panel discussing the VA RFP for the Custodial Agent
Katy Lysell, VA Office of Mental Health Services	Mental Health Assistant
Melinda Gentry, VA Office of Training Strategy	VeHU and VA Training Activities for VistA
Stuart Frank and John Christensen	Implementing VistA Imaging Outside the VA
Mike Mims,VA Project Manager - Pharmacy Reengineering	Pharmacy Reengineering
Alex Albu, Developer, Dept. of VA	Pharmacy Reengineering - MOCHA
Ron Ruzback,  Developer, Dept of VA	Pharmacy Reengineering - MOCHA
Russell Sperry, VA	Pharmacy Reengineering - Replacing the National Drug File
Edmund Billings, Medsphere	Meaningful Use Certification Lessons Learned
Ben Mehling, Medsphere (not here Wednesday afternoon)	Panel discussing the VA RFP for the Custodial Agent
Jordan Sparks, Developer of OpenDental	OpenDental (afternoon 23 & 24th only
Venessa Manchester, COO, Alembic Foundation	The New CONNECT, Aurion
David Riley, President, Alembic Foundation	The New CONNECT, Aurion
K.S. Bhaskar (Bhaskar), Senior VP, FIS	Wholesome Practices for Securing the Production Environment with GT.M and Linux
George Lilly, Developer & VP, WorldVistA	ePrescribing
Jonah Czerwinski - Senior Advisor, Department of Veterans Affairs	Innovations Project
Janusz Wojtusiak II, GMU Director, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory and Asst. Prof. Department of Health Administration and Policy	Panel on Open Source VistA in Education
Phan H Giang, GMU Assoc. Prof. Dept of Health Administration and Policy	Panel on Open Source VistA in Education
Kevin Meldrum, Developer, Dept. of Veterans Affairs	Update on AviVA
Matthew King, MD
Tom Munnecke	Panel discussing the VA RFP for the Custodial Agent and talk 11 AM Monday
David Wicksell, Fourth Watch	VistACom
Zach Gonzales, Oroville Hospital	VistACom
Joseph Dal Molin, President E-cology Corp.	VistA International Deployment and Collaboration
Dave Whitten, CTO WorldVistA	Technical, Practical and Social Challenges of Auditing for Meaningful Use Stage I and Beyond
Rick Marshall, VistA Expertise Network	Panel discussing the VA RFP for the Custodial Agent, The VistA Lab Project,
Kevin Meldrum, Developer, VA	Update on AvivA
Roger Maduro	News from OpenHealth News
Chris Richardson	Multiple topics - Deidentification, adding ISO 639 languages and other considerations for language support in VistA,
Alan Montgomery, VA	National Support the Reminders Package
Patrick Redington, VA	Developer, Reminders Package
Anthony Puleo, VA	CPRS Developer
Philip Longman, Author of "Best Care Anywhere"	Panel discussing the VA RFP for the Custodial Agent

Agenda

Day 1	Monday, May 23, 2011
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, Student Union II	Room 1&2, Top Floor, Student Union II
08:00	Arrive, network, pick up name tags
09:00	Meeting Overview and Logistics
09:15	Peggy Maddox, Welcome and Remarks
09:30	Introductions - Who, Why & Success 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 - Sponsored by DSS Inc.	Break
11:00	Tom Munnecke - Conceptual Integrity: Details of Secret Sauce Behind the Success of VistA.
12:00	Lunch - Sponsored by DSS Inc.	Lunch
13:15	Rick Marshall - Modernizing VISTA: VISTA after Refactoring and Reengineering
14:00	Venessa Manchester and David Riley Alembic and Aurion - The Future for NHIN CONNECT
14:45	Break Sponsored by DSS Inc.	Break
15:00	Roger Maduro, News from OpenHealth News
15:45	Rick Marshall - continues his talk Modernizing VISTA: VISTA after Refactoring and Reengineering	Jordan Sparks - Open Dental
16:30	Katie Lysell, VistA Mental Health Package
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Day 2	Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, Student Union II	Room 1&2, Top Floor, Student Union II
08:00	Arrive Coffee Provided by FIS GT.M Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.
08:30	Edmund Billings, Meaningful Use Lessons Learned From the EHR Provider and the User Perspective *
09:15	Melinda Gentry, VeHU MyCampus and VA Training Activities for VistA *
10:00	Break	Break
10:30	Stuart Frank, John Christensen, VistA Imaging outside of the VA *
11:15	VistACom * George Lilly David Wicksell	Pharmacy re-engineering Mike Mims Alex Albu Ron Ruzback Russell Sperry*
12:00	Lunch Sponsored by FIS GT.M Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.	Lunch
13:15	Michael O'Neil, Project Manager for the RFP for the Custodial Agent for Open Source VistA*
14:00	Panel Visions for the Future of the Open Source Custodial Agent* Tom Munnecke Ed Meagher Philip Longman Rick Marshall Ben Mehling
15:30	Break	Break
15:45	Roger Baker, VA CIO*
18:00	Underground Railroad Banquet - Register Here    http://urr2011.eventbrite.com/
Day 3	Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, Student Union II	Room 1&2 AND Rooms 3-5, Top Floor, Student Union II
08:00	Arrive
08:30	KS Bhaskar, Securing the FOSS VistA Software Stack	Vendor Presentation: Wayne Kienewski - Using Dragon Naturally Speaking with VistA
09:15	Joseph Dal Molin - Putting the World into VistA - International Deployment and Collaboration	Rm 1&2 VistA Install Fest
10:00	Break	Break
10:30	Ben Mehling - Update on Medsphere's Open Source Projects	Rm 1&2 VistA Install Fest Rm 3-5 Chris Richardson - Language & Anonomizing software
11:15	David Whitten - Technical, Practical and Social Challenges of Auditing for Meaningful Use Stage I and Beyond	Room 1-2 VistA Install Fest Room 3-5 Kevin Meldrum, Update on the status of AvivA, the web based interface  for VistA under development by the VA *
12:00	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	Open Source VistA in Education Panel* Patricia Abbott Janusz Wojtusiak II Phan H Giang	Rm 1&2 VistA Install Fest
15:00	Break	Break
15:15	Jonah Czerwinski - Department of Veterans Affairs Innovations Project	Rm 1&2 VistA Install Fest
16:00	Rick Marshall - How to do Innovative Development for VistA without Breaking anything	Rm 1&2 VistA Install Fest Rm 3&5 Reminders Upcoming and in the Future -  Alan Montgomery, Patrick Redington and Anthony Puleo
16:45
	Legend: * time can't be changed