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