20th VistA Community Meeting - Working Agenda

Presenters

Last Name	First Name	Topic(s)
Anthracite	Raymond	Open Source Licensing: Making sense of the alphabet soup, GPL, AGPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD and Eclipse
Baker	Roger	VA CIO topic to be announced
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.
Creedon	Hugh	vxVistA.org A New Collaboration Environment for the VistA Community
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
Lopez	Fabian	vxVistA.org A New Collaboration Environment for the VistA Community
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.
Tweed	Rob	EWD and NoSQL
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.

Working Agenda (01/10/2010)

Day 1	Thursday, January 14, 2010
Time	Auditorium	Room 2
08:00	Arrive, network, pick up name tags
09:00	Meeting Overview and Logistics
09:15	Welcome
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	Break
11:00	Tentative Time and Topic – Remote presentation – Roger Baker, VA CIO
12:00	Lunch	Lunch
13:15	Matt King – Implementation Management
14:00	Syed BokhariPart One: 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.	Rob Tweed – EWD and what is new for VistA with EWD
14:45	Break	Break
15:00	Edmund Billings – Meaningful Use
15:45	Ben Mehling - Medsphere.org Released Open Source Software for VistA
16:30	Regroup - An important part of VistA Community Meetings is that we refine them as we go, and this meeting will help refine the meeting for the subsequent days.
17:00	Dinner - on your own
17:30	Doors to building locked and you need to be out of the building – Thanks

Day 2	Friday, January 15, 2010
Time	Auditorium	Room 2
08:00	Arrive
09:00	Kevin Toppenberg – Shows CPRS enhancements, etc. he has been developing.
09:45	George Lilly- Exchanging Patient Related Data - CCR/CCD, ePrescribing – George Lilly
10:30	Break	Break
10:45	Syed Bokhari – Part Two – 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.	Community Collaboration Discussion Group – Potential projects to tackle together,etc. No specific presentation. Anyone invited
11:30	To be confirmed: Howard Hays – What IHS is doing under the Recovery Act, in particular around Certification and Meaningful Use and "modernization".
12:15	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	George Lilly - XML infrastructure: XPath, Parsing, Webservices
14:15	George Timson – Fileman/Kernel – Things that are not obvious in the Documentation
15:00	Break	Break
15:15	Ben Mehling – Extending the Platform – Some hands on with Medsphere's Open Source Software Releases for VistA
16:00	Discussion group – CPRS enhancements for the future	Bhaskar – What's New in GT.M
16:45	Regroup
17:30	Building Closes and Everybody Out – Thank you

Day 3	Saturday, January 16, 2010
Time	Auditorium	Room 2
08:00	Arrive
09:00	Ignacio Valdes – Astronaut
09:45	Syed Bokhari – Topic Pending	International character set support on GT.M with Unicode (ISO/IEC-10646) – Bhaskar
10:30	Break	Break
10:45	Chris Richardson, Kevin Toppenberg & George Timson – Internationalization of VistA
11:30	Brian Behlendorf – The Open Source Connect Project and National Health Information Network
12:15	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	Brian Behlendorf – Cooperative Open Source Projects with an Emphasis on the Apache License for Facilitating Cooperation
14:15	Matt King – Quality Reporting in VistA	Fabian Lopez and Hugh Creedon – vxVistA.org A New Collaboration Environment for the VistA Community
15:00	Break	Break
15:15	Raymond Anthracite – Open Source Licensing	RobTweed – NoSQL
16:00	Medsphere Company Overview – Ben Mehling
17:30	Building Closes – Everybody Out – Thanks

Day 4	Sunday, January 17, 2010
Time	Auditorium	Room 2
08:00	Arrive
09:00	Chris Richardson – Deidentification in VistA – work being done to create test and research databases
09:45	Bhaskar – Building the Smallest and Lightest Fully Capable VistA Applications
10:30	Break	Break
10:45
11:30	
12:15	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	
14:00	Building Closes – every thing and everybody out please – safe trip home

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