Past Events

On March 29 & 30, NASA will host its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View California. This event will bring together engineers and policy makers across NASA and respected members of the open source community to discuss the challenges with the existing open source policy framework, and propose modifications that would make it easier for NASA to develop, release, and use open source software.

Open source brings numerous benefits to NASA software projects, including increased software quality, reduced development costs, faster development cycles, and reduced barriers to public-private collaboration through new opportunities to commercialize NASA technology. This inherently transparent, participatory, and collaborative approach is revolutionizing the way software is created, improved, and used.

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The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) brings a world-class lineup of IT thought leaders to the Southeast for three days to discuss the latest issues for developers, executives, government leaders and educators. The conference has an Open Health track with nine separate presentations and roundtables. The wide range of presentations will include Sam Bowen from OpenEMR as well as David Riley, former head of the CONNECT project on the new foundation that has been created to extend the CONNECT success through the private sector.

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Join us for the next Capitol Hill HIT lunch briefing program Wednesday, March 9th, in Room 2456 Rayburn, 12:30 – 2:00 pm focused on: “Health Information Technology 101: An Update and Overview of the Policy Issues Regarding PHRs, EMRs, eRX, HIEs, Home Monitoring; Telemedicine and More”.   Read More »

The Fifth VistA Technical Meeting will happen on March 5th through March 7th at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. This will be primarily a technical meeting focused on Web Interfaces for VistA with specific emphasis on those necessary for Meaningful Use Certification of the VistA system.

There will be no fee for attendance, with lunch meals provided by WorldVistA. 

In-person attendance is encouraged, and some remote attendance will be supported through a conference call and shared Web Huddle screens.  Read More »

Information Session: Nationwide Health Information Network Specifications

Please join members of the Nationwide Health Information Network technical team for a special information session on implementing Nationwide Health Information Network specifications. This orientation will bring together technical consultants, entities that have implemented the specifications, and organizations just starting the process of implementation in an informative exchange of best practices and a robust question and answer session. Read More »

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.

This meeting will have a focus on the development effort towards certification and will include presentations by VistA domain experts from the VA discussing their current work an plans for the future. Read More »