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  • VistA Community Meeting
When Jan 16, 2015 08:30 AM to
Jan 18, 2015 05:00 PM
Where UC Davis, Sacramento Campus, Sacramento, California
Contact Name
Contact Phone (240) 793-7436 ; 240-246-0123
Attendees Mahmoud Thabit Kombo
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30th VistA Community Meeting, January 16-18, 2015

 UC Davis, Sacramento Campus, Sacramento, California

Hosted by the Department of Pathology, UC Davis School of Medicine

"Connecting people who are serious about VistA"

Sponsors:

   FIS Logo 2014 DSS May 20 2014   

   

Conference Registration

 

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE


Pre-Conference Courses

GT.M Course: taught by KS Bhaskar will be offered for the four days before the meeting, Monday, January 12 through Thursday, January 15th. Contact Nancy Anthracite (nancy@worldvista.org) if you have questions.

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the GT.M Course


EWD.js Course: Rob Tweed will be offering this course Tuesday, January 13 through Thursday, January 15th.   Contact Nancy Anthracite (nancy@worldvista.org) if you have questions.

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the EWD Course

 

We were unable to obtain training rooms in a hotel next to the UC Davis Medical Center and the VistA Community Meeting so the training will be held at the Comfort Inn on 21 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95826. The Comfort Inn is 3.5 miles from the UC Davis Campus.

The room rate will be $79.99 for both king and double rooms for those attending the training. Call the hotel at 1-916-379-0400 and let them know that you are calling abou the WorldVistA Training to get that rate.

The GT.M training begins at 8:30 AM on the 12th and the EWD training at 10 AM on the 13th.

Assistance will be provided to transfer from the Comfort Inn to a hotel near the VistA Community Meeting by Nancy Anthracite on the evening of January 15 if needed.  Nancy's cell phone is 240-793-7436 if you have questions or need help.

 

Lodging Information for the VistA Community Meeting Area Hotels by Proximity to the Meeting:

Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Midtown: ~1 block from UC Davis

4422 Y Street, Sacramento, CA, 95817

Direct Line is 916-455-6800 - consider booking online

(Example -11-5-2014 for meeting dates in January Lowest Expedia and Orbits $87)

No airport transportation, Inquire about Internet and parking, Parking may not be free

 

Hotel Med Park: ~1.5 blocks from UC Davis

2356 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA, 95817

Direct Line to Hotel is 916-455-4000 - consider using online booking

(Example Priceline 11-5-2014 for January was $119)

No airport transportation, Inquire about parking and Internet

 

De Ville Motel: ~2 blocks from UC Davis

2756 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817

Direct Line (916) 457-9803

$65 for two double beds and $55 for one queen bed

No airport transportation, Parking and Internet free of charge

  Questions contact Nancy Anthracite nancy@worldvista.org

 

 

About the 30th 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.

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 UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento for hosting the meeting.

Location of the Meeting 

 The meeting is in the Medical Education building on the Sacramento Campus of UC Davis and the rooms are on the heading of the schedule.  Here is a link to a map showing where that building is located. 

   Map showing the Medical Education Building

 Speakers

Hotel Name Address Phone Transportation Notes
Speaker Topic                   


Howard Hays, CIO Indian Health Service, Retired TBA


Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, Deputy Minister of Health, Tanzania Zanzibar Health Sector Reform. The Success Story with
USAID PARTNERSHIP and other US Organizations
Jason Hawsey, CPRS Developer, Department of Veterans Affairs
CPRS Update
Michael Hogarth, MD FACP, Professor and Vice Chair of Informatics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis
Patient Registries, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Open Source EHR Software
Paul Tibbits, MD, Department of Veterans Affairs, CIO Architecture, Strategy, and Design TBA (on site, Saturday)
Dave Whitten, CTO WorldVistA & Central Regional Hospital VistA Manager HL7 & Input Templates
Patrick Redington, Programmer for Reminders, VA Reminders and PCE Update
Alan Montgomery, National Support, Reminders, VA Reminders Update (Saturday)
Nancy Van Ness Open Source Drug Interaction Databases
Keith Magoon, VA Project Manager for Immunizations
Project Management in the VA
Stephen Oxley, MD,  CMO, Central Regional Hospital  VistA Customization, Configuration and Content: A Collaborative Approach
Joe Thurber, CTO, Central Regional Hospital
CPRS Enhancements
TBA
eHMP
Don Hewitt, Vice President, Business Operations, OSEHRA
OSEHRA Update
Jeff Udell
Lexicon and Terminology Update
Sidney Tarason, CEO / Lead Programmer, Astute Semantics
VistA Modernized (vendor)
Joel Ivey
Coding Using the M editor for Eclipse
Unit Testing for M code
Zeid M AbuGhosh, MD, CMO EHS, Jordan
Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan
Ghai Al-Kuoz, MD Clinical Transformation Manager, EHS, Jordan
Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan  (Separate session from Zeid's)
Olivier Bodenreider, MD PhD, Chief, Cognitive Science Branch, National Library of Medicine
RxNorm
Noam Arzt, PhD, HLN Consulting
ICE and CAT, Open Source Software for Immunization Forecasting(Friday 8AM)
KS Bhaskar, FIS,  Development Director
GT.M Update
Rick Marshall, VistA Expertise Network
Forum
Fileman
VistA Architecture
Joel Mewton, Senior Software Engineer, Bitscopic
VistA Refactoring and Modernization Tools and Strategies (without writing M code!)
Donna Ellis, Program Manager, Pharmacy Re-Engineering
VA Pharmacy Update
Rafael Richards, MD, MS,  Physician Informatician, Collaboration Team,  Health Solutions Management,  Office of Informatics and Analytics (OIA),   VHA
 Strategic/Infrastructure Enhancements to
VistA (not package specific).
Douglas Martin, MD,  Regenstrief Institute
CareWeb Framework Update
Fabian Lopez, , PMP, CSM, Project Manager DSS
The VistA Learning Center and Extension Hub
Rohit Kumar, CEO, GTI Infotel

Open Source GTI Practice Management followed by an overview of the Indian hospital/healthcare IT Industry

Sam Habiel, , Pharm.D., Director of Technology, VISTA Expertise Network
Cryptography in VistA; Latte, a replacement for MOCHA
George Lilly, CIO, WorldVistA & Director, VISTA Expertise Network
Progress in Web Services Using MUMPS
Rob Silverman, PharmD
Program Manager, PBM Clinical Informatics
Update on the Immunization Project










Agenda

 

 

Time
Friday, January 16, 2015



Day 1 Friday, January 18, 2013
                                     

Room   -  Medical Education Building 1222
Rm. 1335
Rm .1333
07:30 Doors Open


8:00
ICE and CAT, Open Source Software for Immunization Forecasting - Noam Artz


9:00 VA Pharmacy Update - Donna Ellis


9:45
Break Sponsored by GT.M


10:15
Lexicon Update, Jeff Udell


11:00 Project Management in the VA, Keith Magoon


11:45 Lunch Sponsored by GT.M





13:00 Immunization Project, Rob Silverman


13:45 Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan - Zeid AbuGhosh


14:30 Coffee Break Sponsored by GT.M
 

14:45 Fileman - Rick Marshall

15:30 Introduction of Attendees


16:15 Open Discussion Session with the community about Needed Strategic/Infrastructure Enhancements to VistA (not package specific) - Rafael Richards

16:00



16:45







Day 2 Saturday, January 17, 2015


Time Room
Room 1335
Room
08:00
CPRS Update - Jayson Hawsey


08:45
Reminders Update - Alan Montgomery and Patrick Redington Unit Testing - Joel Ivey

09:30
KS Bhaskar - GT.M Update


10:15
Break Sponsored by DSS         


10:30 The VistA Learning Center and Extension Hub - Fabian Lopez Reminders Update - Alan Montgomery and Patrick Redington
11:15 Zanzibar Health Sector Reform. The Success Story with
USAID PARTNERSHIP and other US Organizations -  Mahmoud Thabit Kombo -Followed By-
VistA Modernized (vendor) - Sidney Tarason
Reminders Update Continued

12:00

Lunch Sponsored by DSS



13:15 Paul Tibbits


14:00
 VistA Customization, Configuration and Content: A Collaborative Approach - Steven Oxley and Matthew King EWD Update - Rob Tweed
14:45

Break Sponsored by DSS



15:00 OSEHRA Update - Don Hewitt
Eclipse Editor - Joel Ivey

15:45 Milestones and Challenges in VistA “Hakeem” Implementation in Jordan - Ghai Al-Kuoz

16:30
CPRS Enhancements - Joe Thurber
VistA Refactoring and Modernization Tools and Strategies (without writing M code!) - Joel Mewton




Day 3 Sunday,  January 18, 2015


Time Room Room
Room
08:15
Reflections on a career in IHS - And Half a Career in Informatics - Howard Hays

09:00 Open Source GTI Practice Management followed by an overview of the Indian hospital/healthcare IT Industry - Rohit Kumar Cryptograpy in VistA - Sam Habiel
09:45 CareWeb Framework Update - Douglas Martin


10:30 Break    

10:45 Latte - Sam Habiel Dave Whitten - Input Templates
11:30

RxNorm, Olivier Bodenreider



12:15 Lunch


13:00 Open Source Drug Databases - Nancy Van Ness HL7 - Whitten

13:45
Forum - Rick Marshall


14:30 Break


14:45
Progress in Web Services Using MUMPS - George Lilly

15:30 VistA Architecture - Rick Marshall

16:15