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  • Past Conferences
    24 - 27 February 2005
    SLC Logo OpenVistA GUI Development Meeting: Best Western Garden Inn, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    Research and programming meeting: building web interfaces to OpenVistA; m2web; technology survey.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    17 - 21 January 2005 TPOSSCON logo Trans-Pacific Open Source Software Conference (TPOSSCON): Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    Strategic sessions between participants from both sides of the Pacific.
    sponsor: Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF)
    14-17 January 2005
    OpenVistA GUI Development Meeting: WorldVistA Office, Pittsburg, California, USA
    Research and programming meeting: building web interfaces to OpenVistA; m2web; technology survey.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    29 November - 1 December 2004 TETHIC logo The Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Conference 2004: Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, USA
    The Impact and Promise of Technology & Innovation on the Future of Healthcare.
    sponsor: The Emergent Group
    21 - 24 October 2004 DC Skyline Eleventh VistA Community Meeting: Hewlett-Packard Office, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
    VistA classes, installation, projects, brainstorming, and organization.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    facilitator: Oleen Healthcare Information Management, Inc.
    host: Hewlett Packard
    contact: WorldVistA
    7 - 11 September 2004 Medinfo 2004 logo Medinfo 2004: Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA
    Eleventh tri-annual world congress on medical informatics.
    sponsor: American Medical Informatics Association
    contact: AMIA
    9 - 12 August 2004 VA seal VA Information Technology Conference: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA
    VA's annual information technology conference.
    sponsor: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    conference manager: VA Austin Automation Center
    contact: ITC Staff
    17 - 20 June 2004
    UW Photo Tenth VistA Community Meeting: University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, Washington, USA
    VistA as a Teaching Tool. Building the VistA Community. OpenVistA Goes Live. Installing OpenVistA.
    Most of the WorldVistA executive team attended this meeting.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    conference manager: Pacific NorthWest MUMPS Users Group
    contact: Arden Forrey
    6 - 8 April 2004 eHealth Asia 2004 Conference: Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Presentations and exhibitions about health informatics.
    President Rick Marshall and Director Joseph Dal Molin represented WorldVistA at this conference.
    sponsors:
  • Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA)
  • International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
  • Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • conference manager: Crystal Edge
    contact: info@ehealth.org.my
    11 - 14 March 2004 Rice University photo Ninth VistA Community Meeting: Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
    Building the VistA community, developing OpenVistA 3, installation and configuration, documentation.
    The entire executive team attended the meeting.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    facilitator: Executive Software Systems Incorporated
    contact: WorldVistA
    10 - 11 February 2004 Open Steps logo First Open Steps Thinktank: Marwell Hotel, Hampshire, United Kingdom
    Invitation-only thinktank on open source and free software in health informatics.
    Director Joseph Dal Molin represented WorldVistA at this conference.
    sponsors:
  • British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee (BCS HIC)
  • IMIA Open Source Working Group (IMIA OSWG)
  • IMIA-NI Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Group (OSNI)
  • Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development (CHIRAD)
  • Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA)
  • Health Informatics Europe (HIA)
  • contact: Dr. Peter Murray
    10-12 December 2003 World Summit logo World Summit on the Information Society and joint Information and Communication
    Technologies for Development platform
    :
    Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
    WorldVistA representatives met with delegates from around the world and presented OpenVistA.
    sponsor: United Nations
    hosts: Government of Switzerland
    7-9 December 2003 OSHCA logo Fourth Open Source Health Care Alliance Conference: University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    The alliance made a commitment to drafting standards for medical informatics packages, for evaluating current open-source medical informatics software in terms of those standards, and then collaborating on joint ventures that combine the best features of the various software packages.
    sponsor: Open Source Health Care Alliance
    hosts: University Hospital of Geneva
    contact: Joseph Dal Molin or Adrian Midgley
    16-19 October 2003 Eighth VistA Community Meeting: The Royal, Norcross, Georgia, USA
    Work on OpenVistA 3, presentations on OpenVistA and Berlin Heart Heart Institute, installation and configuration, documentation, VistA community planning.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: The Royal
    facilitator: M Systems Plus
    contact: WorldVistA
    5-8 June 2003 Seventh VistA Community Meeting: Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, California, USA
    OpenVistA 2.51, installation and configuration, documentation.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    contact: WorldVistA
    March 2003 eGovOS Conference: Washington, DC, USA
    27 February - March 2 2003 Sixth VistA Community Meeting: HP Expertise Center, Green Belt, Maryland, USA
    VistA's 21st birthday party, underground reunion, Health-e-Vet presentation, installation and configuration, documentation, WorldVistA achieves 501(c)(3) status.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: Hewlett Packard
    contact: WorldVistA
    16-18 November 2002 Fifth VistA Community Meeting: UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Work on OpenVistA 2.5, installation and configuration, documentation.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: University of California at Los Angeles
    contact: WorldVistA
    13-15 November 2002 OSHCA logo Third Open Source Health Care Alliance Conference: UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Presentations and roundtables on open-source medical informatics.
    sponsor: Open Source Health Care Alliance
    hosts: Joseph Dal Molin or Adrian Midgley
    1-4 August 2002 Fourth VistA Community Meeting: Medsphere, Aliso Viejo, California, USA
    Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, documentation, work on WorldVistA incorporation, discussion of verification standards, VistA History presentation.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: Medsphere Systems Corporation
    contact: WorldVistA
    19-22 April 2002 Third VistA Community Meeting: Sanchez Offices, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
    Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, documentation.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: Sanchez Computer Associates
    contact: WorldVistA
    25-28 January 2002 Second VistA Community Meeting: Birmingham VA Field Office, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    contact: WorldVistA
    16-19 November 2001 First VistA Community Meeting: Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
    Work on OpenVistA, installation and configuration, presentation on object orientation.
    sponsor: WorldVistA
    host: Rice University
    contact: WorldVistA
    6-7 September 2001 OSHCA logo Second Open Source Health Care Alliance Meeting: Forte Posthouse Kensington Hotel, London, UK
    Presentations and discussions about open-source medical informatics, session on "Healthcare for Humanity" (WorldVistA).
    sponsors:
  • The National Health Service of the UK
  • Minoru Development Corporation
  • e-cology Corporation
  • host: Forte Posthouse Kensington Hotel
    contact: Joseph Dal Molin or Adrian Midgley
    20-23 July 2001 Rune Development Group Meeting: Oakland Federal Building, Oakland, California, USA
    Work on object-oriented (OO) extensions to Standard MUMPS, decision to set aside OO work to create OpenVistA.
    sponsor: MUMPS Development Committee, Subcommittee 16, Task Group 1, Working Group 1
    host: Oakland Federal Building

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