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VistA Expo 2012 Announces VISTA Extensions Challenge

Press Release | VistAExpo | July 17, 2012

The VISTA Expo & Symposium is pleased to announce the first VISTA Extensions Challenge, running from July 10th through September 10th, with prizes to be award at the VISTA Expo. The VISTA Extensions Challenge 2012 is hosted at www.vxHub.org, where developers can submit their entries, and all members of the VISTA community can vote. All extension developers will have the opportunity to present a webinar on their extension, and each extension will have its own information page. Read More »

VISTA Expo 2014 Moves to DC

Press Release | VistA Expertise Network, OSEHRA | July 24, 2014

The VISTA Expertise Network is joining forces with the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) to collaborate in a special strategic meeting regarding the future of VISTA...This special session, entitled Future VISTA: A Technical Town Hall, will be chaired by Rick Marshall, the Network’s executive director. It will be held on the first day of the 2014 OSEHRA Open Source Summit, September 3–5 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, just outside of Washington, D.C. Read More »

VistA for the NHS

Ewan Davis | Woodcote Consulting | July 25, 2012

So in conclusion I have a different vision for VistA in the NHS than  the NHS Campaign for VistA. However, we both want to see an NHS version of VistA and we both want to see it widely implemented. So let not worry about where we hope and think this should lead. Looking at the NHS Campaign for VistA’s  8 point plan http://nhsvista.net/our-ambition/  The first six steps align broadly with what I want to see happen so lets get on an do it and see where it leads us which I suspect might be a different than any of us currently expect.
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VistA Is A Rival to Epic and Cerner in Major Deployments of EHR Systems

According to a recent article in Healthcare IT News, Intermountain Healthcare has just signed a multi-year contract to deploy Cerner electronic health record (EHR) systems. The article claims that "only two companies – Epic and Cerner – seem to be in competition for the large and complex deployments."  However, there is a third option that constantly goes unrecognized - the widespread deployment and use of the world reknowned 'open source' VistA system by large scale healthcare provider organizations in the U.S. and overseas. Read More »

VistA open source will ‘morph’ to VA-DOD joint EHR, VA CIO says

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 1, 2011

The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur. VA is developing an open source track to modernize its VistA electronic health record and will incorporate the approach with DOD in the joint system. Read More »

VistA: From Start To Go In 5 Minutes

[The] original two to three day process of trying to take home VistA EMR from yester year is now something that can be completed in the time it takes for you to walk to the nearby coffee shop for a refill and return to your office. Thanks to the extraordinary engineering work of Chris Edwards (a developer for KRM Associates and Certification Manager at OSEHRA), all of the "tough decisions" are made for you. Read More »

VistA: The Open Source EHR Hackable Platform

[A]s a result of the work of Christopher Edwards, developing the OSEHRA Installer for VistA, which includes the suite of EWD.js products and a raft of demonstration applications, we now have exactly what Tony was suggesting: VistA, the Open Source EHR Hackable Platform. Read More »

VistA Expo 2011

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 17, 2011 - 8:00am - November 20, 2011 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Marriott Town Center Hotel Redmond, WA
United States

The much anticipated VISTAExpo & Symposium 2011 conference has just issued a call for papers as well as trainers for their educational tracks and tutorial sessions. VISTAExpo is a four-day conference for activists and members of the VistA ecosystem, current users as well as potential adopters. It will be held from November 17-20 in Redmond, Washington. Papers and presentations are due by September 15. The conference organizers are looking for presenters on topics related to one of their four tracks as well as experienced VistA trainers to give tutorials for a large number of VistA “newbies” and potential users who are expected to attend. VISTAExpo is being organized primarily by the VISTA Expertise Network.

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25th VistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 4, 2012 - 7:00am - June 6, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
George Mason University
Fairfax Campus 4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, VA
United States

The 25th VistA Community Meeting is just a month away and again promises to be a very exciting and informative meeting. Presentations will cover all aspects of VistA, from the strategic with presentations by VA CIO Roger Baker and Michael O'Neill, Senior Advisor, VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2), Dr. Seung Ki Mun, the CEO of OSEHRA will speak about the extrordinary growth of the open source organization. Becky Monroe form the VA will talk about the enourmous repository to VistA knowleege and educational materials that have been made publicly available by the Va. Technical sessions will include presentations by Rob Tweed, George Lilly and K.S Bhaskar, and presentations by key VistA adopters. Stay tuned for regular updates.

 

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NASA, State Department and Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative Host Open Source Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 20, 2012 - 9:00am - June 21, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
University of Maryland Business School
7621 Mowatt Lane
College Park, MD 20742
United States

Registration for the second Open Source Summit, hosted by NASA, the U.S. State Department and the Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative to advance the use of open source software in government, is under way. The event will be held June 20-21 at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.

The summit will convene leaders from government and industry as well as software practitioners to discuss the development, release and use of open source software, which is characterized by a collaborative development process and free user access.

Discussion topics will include the current and future state of the government open source community, how-to insights for open source projects in government, real-world projects and their successes and challenges, and government procurement of open source software.

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28th VistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
January 17, 2014 - 8:00am - January 19, 2014 - 5:00pm
Location: 
UC Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, CA 95817
United States

Former VA CIO Roger Baker and Oroville Hospital CEO Robert Wentz will be addressing the 28th Vista Community Meeting (VCM) in Sacramento, CA in what promises to be one most important conferences of the VistA community to date. The conference, which takes place January 17-19 at the UC Davis School of Medicine campus in Sacramento, CA will feature a stellar cast of Health IT leaders. In addition to Baker and Wentz, conference speakers include Dr. Seong Ki Mun, Chairman of OSEHRA, Howard Hays, CIO of the Indian Health Service (IHS), Theresa Cullen, Chief Medial Informatics Officer (CMIO) of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Stephen Oxley, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Central Regional Hospital in North Carolina, and Denise LeFevre, CIO of Oroville Hospital.

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Red Hat Summit 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 14, 2014 (All day) - April 17, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
United States

Red Hat will hold its 10th annual Red Hat Summit at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 14-17, 2014. The Red Hat Summit brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration and customer success. This year's conference will feature a session on Red Hat technology in healthcare that will feature Dr. Seung Ki Mun from OSEHRA.

The session, which will be featured as a town hall meeting on Wednesday, April 16th, will also feature Don Frederick, Senior solution architect, Red Hat, Rob Barker, Director of Application Development at Cigna, and Brijesh Kalidindi, Senior IT manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.

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Luis Ibáñez to be Interviewed in vxJourney Program

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
May 1, 2014 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Luis Ibáñez, one of the best known advocates of open source solutions in healthcare will be interviewed Thursday, May 1, by Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney weekly webinar. Ibáñez a contributing author to Open Health News as well as other publications, in particular Opensource.com, will talk about the VistA course that he has been teaching at the State University of New York at Albany.

This article, written by Ibáñez outlines the backround and story behind the course. The interview will provide a golden opportunity for those who wish to learn more about the SUNY project. Read More »

Roger A. Maduro Discusses Special Report-VistA: The EHR of Record

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
May 14, 2014 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Have you ever heard the following questions...Does anyone other than the VA use VistA?.... and by the way, how many VA healthcare facilities are there? Where else is it installed? Who else uses VistA, or one of its derivatives?

Roger A. Maduro, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Open Health News (OHNews) will discuss the special report, VistA: The EHR of Record during an interview with Fabian Lopez, host of the popular vxJourney weekly webinar. Maduro will also discuss the VistA Installations GIS map & Database v1.0. This map developed with real data provided by users and companies related to the implementation and development of VistA. It shows where the award-winning open source VistA EHR has been implemented. Be ready to be surprised by this great effort.

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Ibáñez to Discuss Teaching the RDF Framework for use in Medical Data Sharing During vxJourney Program

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
May 21, 2014 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Luis Ibáñez, one of the best known advocates of open source solutions in healthcare will be interviewed Wednesday, May 14, by Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney weekly webinar. Ibanez will be discussing the importance of teaching the Resource Description Framework (RDF) in college courses. RDF is a framework that facilitates the consistent representation of data and is a core element of what is called the Semantic Web. It's use in the context of sharing medical information is highly relevant for personal EHRs, health care exchanges, patient registries, and public health research.

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