View source for VistA Community Meeting Q2 2006

Please use the sections below to enter your suggestions for the next meeting.
= Venue =
The VistA Community Meeting is currently planned for the first quarter of 2006.  Tentative Dates are January 27, 28, 29. (Friday through Sunday)

LOCATION: Washington, DC area.

Suggestions:
University Of Maryland

= Tracks = 
'''''Enter tracks of interest:'''''

1. Introduction to VistA

2. International Adopters

3. VistA Programming

= Sessions =
'''''Enter sessions you would like:'''''

a) VistA for Beginners
  * VistA Loadfest * - bring your laptop and leave with VistA installed!

b) VistA Programming Standards and Conventions

c) Advanced VistA Programming

d) Workshop on the Anatomy and Physiology of CPRSChart.exe (Including compiling from source)

e) Workshop on Web2M

f) VistA and disaster / terrorism preparedness: a) remote backup, b) connectivity to pharmacies, near and far, c) data-driven Point of Care (POC) information about uncommon presentations, d) POC access to guidelines of  disaster / terrorism care, e) POC to remote data monitoring for clusters of unusual presentations, f) facilitated access to unusual pharmaceuticals and supplies needed in some disasters (e.g., Prussian Blue), g) VistaWeb....

g) VistA and disaster recovery: Can Charity Hospital, University Hospital and the New Orleans VA be rebuilt with a common IT infrastructure linked to Vista-Office in New Orleans community primary care practices?

H) VistA and outline views of data: Can a customized TreeView control be linked to an outliner for data viewing (e.g., the annotated problem list) and data input (e.g., the annotation of the problem list)?

I) VistA and the National Debt: Can VistA be used to dramatically alter medication errors, duplication of services, application of clinical guidelines, access to very low cost pharmaceuticals, access to cost-effective nutraceuticals, team care, self-care education, preventive medicine, cost-effectiveness research....?

J) VistA and the patient history: Can VistA be linked to a customizable questionnaire driver to collect patient history data important for clinical diagnosis, need-based education, prevention and cost-effective followup?

K) VistA and smart searching for content: Can VistA be linked to a semantic network (e.g., MEDCIN), semantic network software (e.g., WordWeb) and clinical content to assist staff in identifying clinically relevant content at the POC?

M) VistA and primary care medical education: Can VistA be linked to the education of undergraduate "medical assistants" and medical student study of basic clinical skills to enhance the entry of allopathic medical school students into primary care, including, especially, rural primary care?  Can VA's and office practices using Vista-Office be increasingly used as training centers for facile and cost-effective use of an EMR?

= Speakers =  
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1. Cynthia Wark

Basic bio info - feel free to improve details with updated or more concise descriptions.

(http://www.fcw.com/article84607-11-21-04-Print) Nov. 22, 2004
Capt. Cynthia Wark, a Public Health Service nurse who is the acting deputy director of the information systems group at CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality

(http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=106562)October 25, 2004
A group of four federal health care agencies will establish a change control board to keep current the Department of Veteran Affairs' proposed VistA Office Electronic Health Record system...

2. Rob Kolodner, MD, Chief Information Officer, Veterans Health Administration

3. Sen. Chuck Hagel (former Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration, 1981)

4. Technical representative from Intersystems, presenting info on upgrades to Cache and/or using Ensemble to integrate applications.

5. Beyond Drilldown: Are rich internet applications the answer for list, outline, network.... processing of data in VistA?
* TIBCO (http://www.tibco.com) guru: We do HIPAA and HL-7 now.
* Ray Ozzie & Chuck Hatton: Why Groove is not the answer; why Microsoft Live + LPA Prolog is the answer.
** http://www.lpa.co.uk
* SAJAX, Leo, Buzz and UMLisp / Debian Medical gurus: Why not use python and lisp as very productive languages for text, list, outline, network, pubmed....database processing at the Point of Care?  You too can do it in Linux, python and lisp.
** SAJAX - http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
** python - http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/ 
** Leo - http://leo.sourceforge.net/ - Richard K. Ream
** Buzz - http://buzz.sourceforge.net/ - Charles Nofsinger MD
** UMLisp http://umlisp.b9.com/start.html 
** Allegro Common Lisp & Store - http://www.franz.com 
** Debian Medical and UMLisp - http://b9.com Dr. Kevin Rosenberg 
* Patrick Dumas (http://www.kartoo.com): We do flashy hyperlinked information processing now.
* Latenitelabs (http://www.latenitelabs.com) guru: We do very flashy transactional database processing and displays using Intersystems Cache as our speedy database and Macromedia's Flash for our eye popping displays. You can watch your experiments explode.
** Macromedia Labs (http://labs.macromedia.com) guru: We are coming out with the flashiest toolkit for rich internet application programming you could ever want to use.
* WebIdeaTree (http://www.webideatree.com) originator (Christophe Guibert): Combine at least some of the above with WebIdeaTree and the care team can transactionally share with the patient in creating and maintaining a "patient-centered" medical record that patients can carry with them while they (the records, not the patients) are being remotely backed up.

= Topics = 
'''''Enter topics of interest:'''''

Building the business case for VistA

GUI Registration and Cashiering alternatives

Is there a Role for VistA in Disaster Preparedness?

Cache' on Linux, VOE on Linux

Rich Internet Application Programming