29th VistA Community Meeting

College of Health and Human Services

chhs.gmu.edu

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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 - GMU" rate of $92.70 per night.  Cutoff is May 15, but group rate will be honored if room is available. Free Internet & WiFi. Free Continental Breakfast included.  For now call the hotel and ask for the VistA Community Meeting rate.

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 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 Washington Flyer Coach (Bus) Service to the Falls Church Metro Station. It is $10 on way or $18 round trip.  From the Falls Church Station, you can take the orange line to the Vienna Station. The schedule is here: http://www.washfly.com/flyer_bus_schedule.htm

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.

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 the garages.  However, since this is around the time of graduation, you will probably not need a permit.  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 $1.80 (cash) or $1.60 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.  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.nextbus.com/predictor/publicMap.shtml?a=fairfax&r=gold2  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.

About the 29th 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
Paul Tibbits, MD, Department of Veterans Affairs, CIO Architecture, Strategy, and Design	*Monday only
Keith Cox, Department of Veterans Affairs, OI&T, Product Development, Competency Manager, Technical Analysis	VSA                           *Late morning or afternoon
Stephen Oxley, CMO, Central Regional Hospital	Implementation and Maintenance of Inpatient VistA: Who Does What Interfacing VistA with a Different Lab Information Systems Technical and Clinical Enhancements to BCMA
Ross Fletcher, Chief of Staff, Washington DC VA Hospital	Mobile Applications and Using VistA to Improve Patient Care
Kevin Toppenberg, Private Practitioner, Programmer	MUMPS & Delphi Programming and VistA Enhancements
William Cerniuk, Dept, of VA	Innovations Servers & 12,000 iPads for the VA Clinicians
Jason Hawsey, Developer, Dept. of VA	CPRS Update  *1-4 PM
Kenny Condie, Developer, Dept. of VA	CPRS Update  *1-4  PM
Dave Whitten, CTO WorldVistA & Central Regional Hospital VistA Manager	HL7 Messaging
Roger Sigley, Director, Clinical Ancillary & Terminology Products, and others	Strategic Vision and Plans for Terminology Services in the VA to include the Lexicon
Dr. P.J. (Peggy) Maddox, Professor and Chair Department of Health Admin. and Policy	* Wednesday Only
Douglas Martin, Regenstrief Inst.	http://www.carewebframework.org
Fabian Lopez, DSS Project Management	VistA Community, with skin on the game - Nurturing VistA Collaboration
Nancy Van Ness	Open Source Drug Interaction Databases
Aaron J. Drew, Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect, Department of Veterans Affairs	Panel On Open Source Collaborative Development  * Afternoon June 2 or 3
Kevin Meldrum, VA	Health Management Platform
Patrick Redington, Programmer for Reminders, VA	Reminders Update  * Not June 2 or 3 - Noon or June 4 - 1PM
Alan Montgomery, National Support, Reminders, VA	Reminders Update  * Not June 3 - Noon or  1-4 June 4
Wayne Kaniewski, Twin Cities EMR	Using Dragon Naturally Speaking with VistA (vendor)
Michael Suralik, HLN	ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster
Edward Ost, Director, Worldwide Technology Alliances Talend, Open Integration Solutions	Leverage VistA and Apache for an Open Source Health Platform
Chris Richardson, Vice-President, WorldVistA	VistA Expertise EU
KS Bhaskar, FIS Global	GT.M Update and Roadmap Panel on Securing a VistA System Moving VistA Forward Monitoring VistA and Linux operation with the FIS InfoHub  * Monday or Tuesday Only
Larry Landis, Fourth Watch Software	Panel on Security - Securing a VistA System (Mon or Tuesday for this), Monitoring VistA and Linux operation with the FIS InfoHub
Seong Ki Mun, CEO OSEHRA	* Wednesday afternoon
Christoper Edwards, OSEHRA	Code Convergence Security Panel (Mon or Tuesday for this) VistA Loader/Installer
David Hill, Mitre	VistA Novo * Monday Afternoon or Tuesday
Sam Habiel, VistA Expertise Network	CSTools (vendor) and Latte: MOCHA Compatible solutions outside of the VA, including support for MOCHA 2.0. Unit Testing using M-Unit. Using the Eclipse Editor as a Mumps Development Environment
Robert (Bob) Hoyt MD FACP,CAPT, USN, (ret) Director Medical Informatics Program School of Allied Health and Life Sciences University of West Florida	The Potential of VistA for Education, Education Panel
Theresa Cullen ,Director Medical Informatics Program, Department of Veterans Affairs	TBA * Wednesday AM
Patricia Abbott, U. of Michigan, Associate Professor, Division of Systems Leadership and Effectiveness Scienc	VistA for Education Panel
Luis Ibanez, Adjunct Professor, SUNY Alban, Kitware, OSEHRA	VistA for Education Panel;Moderator, Security Panel (Mon or Tuesday for this)
Howard Hays, CIO, IHS	The IHS Innovative Use of SNOMED for Meaningful Use 2014 Certification
Steven Thornton, CTO and Director of the Division of Information Technology , IHS	Panel on Open Source Collaborative Development
Glenn Janzen, Chief Enterprise Architect, IHS	Health Information Exchange  * Best afternoon of June 3
Rick Marshall, VISTA Expertise Network	Forum, Collaborative Development Panel
Joseph Dal Molin, Chairman, WorldVistA, e-Cology	Update VistA and Open Source in the UK
Mike Henderson, Director, Open Source Product Management for OSEHRA	Product Management for OSEHRA VistA
Alan Constantian, Acting Deputy Assistant CIO, Product Managment, Department of Veterans Affairs	TBA * Best AM of June 4th
Sidney Tarason, Astute Semantics	VistA in a Browser (vendor)
Rob Tweed, M Gateway	Mobile Application Development: Going Native? Hand Tremor measurement using the LeapMotion Controller The potential role for Google's Chromecast in Healthcare EWD.js Update
Robert Silverman, VA, Program Manager, PBM Clinical Informatics	Panel on Collaborative Development
George Lilly	Interfacing VistA with ICE (Immunization Forecasting)
Nancy Anthracite	Interfacing VistA with ICE (Immunization Forecasting )
Janusz Wojtusiak, Director, Center for Discovery Science and Health Informatics, GMU	Education Panel  *Not Wednesday 10-11 and 1-2
Steve Watson, Elementary Dr. Watson	Is Real Healthcare Possible, and What Does VistA Have to Offer?
Roger Baker, Chief Strategy Officer Agilex Technologies	TBA
Hua Min, HI Undergraduate Program, GMU	VistA for Education Panel
Seong Ki Mun, CEO OSEHRA	OSEHRA Update
Chris Casey, Consultant	A View of the Future of VistA
Nikolay Topalov	VistA Version Control
Becky Monroe, Director, Training Strategy, VHA Office of Informatics and Analtics, Department of Veterans Affairs	MyVeHUCampus.com and the innumerable educational opportunities that it provides.
Joel Mewton, Senior Software Manager, Bistopic	Introducing Downstream, Open Source Software for Flexible and Scalable Vista Data Extractions

Agenda

Day 1	Monday, June 2, 2014
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	Room 4 & 5, Top Floor, The Hub	Room 1 & 2 Top Floor, The Hub
08:00	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.
09:30	VistA Community, with skin on the game - Nurturing VistA Collaboration - Fabian Lopez	Moving VistA Forward - KS Bhaskar
10:15	Break -  Sponsored By FIS-GT.M	Break
10:30	Implementation and Maintenance of Inpatient VistA: Who Does What - Stephen Oxley	GT.M Update and Roadmap - KS Bhaskar
11:15	Leverage VistA and Apache for an Open Source Health Platform - Edward Ost	Sidney Tarason - VistA in a Browser (vendor)
12:00	Lunch - Sponsored by FIS-GT.M	Lunch
13:15	Paul Tibbits, MD, Department of Veterans  Affairs, CIO Architecture, Strategy, and Design
14:00	EWD.js Update - Rob Tweed
14:45	Break - Sponsored by FIS-GT.M	Break
15:00	Update on VistA and Open Source in the UK - Joseph Dal Molin	Panel on Securing the FOSS VistA Stack - Luis Ibanez (moderator), KS Bhaskar, Larry Landis, Christopher Edwards	Using the Eclipse Editor as a Mumps Development Environment - Sam Habiel
15:45	2 Short presentations - The Potential of VistA for Educations - Bob Hoyt and A View of the Future of VistA - Chris Casey	Panel on Securing the FOSS VistA Stack - Luis Ibanez (moderator), KS Bhaskar, Larry Landis, Christopher Edwards
16:30	Open Source Product Management for OSEHRA- Mike Henderson	Reminder Dialogs - Kevin Toppenberg
Day 2	Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	. Room 4 &5 - The Hub
8:00	New Arrival Introductions
8:15	VistA for Research and Improving Care - Ross Fletcher
9:00	Roger Baker	Hand Tremor measurement using the LeapMotion Controller - Rob Tweed
9:45	Break - Sponsored by DSS	Break
10:00	Forum - Rick Marshall	BCMA Enhancements - Stephen Oxley
10:45	Care Management Platform - Doug Martin	Monitoring VistA and Linux operation with the FIS InfoHub - KS Bhaskar, Larry Landis
11:30	VistA Novo - David Hill	HL 7 - Dave Whitten	CSTools (vendor) and Latte: MOCHA Compatible solutions outside of the VA, including support for MOCHA 2.0. - Sam Habiel
12:15	Lunch - Sponsored by DSS	Lunch
13:15	Panel on Collaborative Development - Aaron Drew, Mike Henderson, Robert Silverman, Steve Thornton,  Rick Marshall,  George Lilly
14:45	Break - Sponsored by DSS	Break
15:00	Unit Testing using M-Unit - Sam Habiel	Education Panel - Patti Abbott, Bob Hoyt, Luis Ibanez, Janusz Wojtusiak, Hua Min
15:45	Interfacing VistA with a Different Lab Information Systems - Stephen Oxley	Education Panel (Continued)
16:30	Glenn Jansen, Chief Enterprise Architect, IHS	Introducing Downstream, Open Source Software for Flexible and Scalable Vista Data Extractions- Joel Mewton
Day 3	Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Time	Ballroom, Top Floor, The Hub (Former Student Union II)	Room 4 & 5 - The Hub
08:30		Enhancements to CPRS - Kevin Toppenberg
09:15	The Department of Veterans Affairs and VistA Evolution - Theresa Cullen and Alan Constantian
10:00	Break	Break
10:15	VistA Loader - Christopher Edwards	CareWeb Framework (continued) - Doug Martin	Reminders Update - Patrick Redington & Alan Montgomery
11:00	Open Source Drug Databases - Nancy Van Ness	Using Dragon Naturally Speaking with VistA - Wayne Kaniewski (vendor)	VistA Services Assembler (VSA) - Keith Cox et al
11:45	Lunch - Sponsored by Nuance	Lunch
13:00	OSEHRA Update - Seong Ki Mun	CPRS Update - Jason Hawsey & Kenny Condie	Code Convergence- Christopher Edwards
13:45	ICE Open Source Immunization Forecasting - Michael Suralik	Education with MyVeHUCampus - Becky Monroe
14:30	Break - Quick view of VistA beginning to send and receive the ICE forecasting messages	Break
14:45	VistA Expertise Europe - Chris Richardson	How the IHS uses SNOMED for Encoding RPMS - Howard Hays	Is Real Healthcare Possible, and What Does VistA Have to Offer? - Steve Watson
15:30	Policy Update - Peggy Maddox Professor and Chair Department of Health Admin. and Policy, George Mason University	12.000 iPads, Innovations Servers - William Cerniuk	VistA Version Control including KIDS assembler and VistA Viewer - Nikolay Topalov
16:15		Health Management Platform - Kevin Meldrum
	Legend: * time constraints