39th VistA Community Meeting

The VistA community will be holding their 39th VistA community meeting virtually on October 22 to 24. 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.

Speaker List

• Dylan Hall, Mitre Corporation - Synthea Project including COVID upgrade
• Peggy Maddox, George Mason University (GMU) - Policy Update
• KS Bhaskar, YottaDB - Update + YottaDB AIM – Application Independent Metadata
• Sam Habiel, YottaDB - OCTO; YottaDB GUI
• Jason Hawsey, VA Developer - CPRS Update
• Linda Yaw, VistA Expertise Network (VEN) - VA PALS
• George Lilly, WorldVistA and VistA Expertise Network (VEN) - VA PALS
• Matthew King, CMIO, Central Regional Hospital, NC - CRH PDMP; CRH Solr Project for notes text searching with Ray - CRH HIE - Using Taxonomy Structures to define CCDA Sections and for Clinical Notes Submission (plus mapping health factors with Ray) - How to Use the Clinical Dashboard and Self-Expiring Orders to Track Patient Location
• Raymond Subasic, VistA Technical Manager, CRH - CRH PDMP; CRH Solr Project for notes text searching - CRH HIE - Using Taxonomy Structures to define CCDA Sections and for Clinical Notes Submission (plus mapping health factors.
• LaRhonda Harris, Clinical Applications Coordinator, CRH - Automated Custom Patient Lists with Adrian Brown and Practical Use of Branching Logic in Clinical Templates; Count function CRH Clinical Scoring Tools,
• Adrian Brown, Nurse Consultant, Clinical Informatics, CRH - Text Formatting for HTML Views. Patient Lists and Branching Logic; CRH Clinical Scoring Tools
• Chris Combs, Business and Technical Applications Analyst, CRH - Nursing Shift Report using OCTO.
• Lori Emory, Clinical Informatics Specialist Manager CRH - Nursing Shift Report using OCTO.
• Robert Silverman, Associate Chief Consultant, PBM Clinical Informatics - EHRM Pharmacy Operations Program Office, VA - VistA Rx Renewal Requests via Progress Note and Additional/Identified Signer Alerts.
• Roger Baker, former Chief Information Officer (CIO), US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
• George Timson, "Mother of Fileman" - A Child at Play
• Daryl Cherctoff, HLN Consulting - ICE, Open Source Immunization forecasting including at the Indian Health Service (IHS).
• Peter Li, formerly of OSEHRA - popHealth.
• Patrick Redington, Reminders Developer, VA - Reminders update.
• Douglas Martin, University of Utah - SMART on FHIR and CDS Hooks integration with CPRS.
• Oliivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Update on RxNorm and RxNorm APIs.
• Joseph Dal Molin, Chairman, WorldVistA - World Wide View for Open Source VistA.
• Paul Tibbits, Executive Director Office of Technical Integration OI&T.
• Kyu Kim, Developer  popHealth.
• Raju Naga, Alabama Deptartment of Health, popHealth.
• Jillian Doss-Walker, CDC - Immunization Forecasting Using ICE at the Indian Health Service.
• Suryam Palanki, IHS - Immunization Forecasting Using ICE at the Indian Health Service (IHS).
• Howard Hays, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), Indian Health Service (IHS) - IHS HIT Modernization Update.
• Rafael Richards, US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - Leveraging the AWS Cloud to provide CPRS from any Device and Provide Security for RPCs.
• Rajashree Patel, US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - eScreening.
• Noam Artz, HLN Consulting - ICE Immunization Forecasting for IHS.