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WorldVistA
OpenVistA
VistA
Hardhats
The VistA Community
Getting Involved
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WorldVistA Past Executives
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Director K. S. Bhaskar
K. S. Bhaskar is vice president of database products at
Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc. in Malvern, Pennsylvania,
where he manages the GT.M product line. (GT.M on Linux is an open-source implementation of MUMPS and
is part of the open-source free software stack for VistA.) By training and inclination he is an
engineer, with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, although he also holds a
masters in business administration. Bhaskar holds five U.S. patents, has written a number of
technical articles, and has presented at technical conferences. He was one of the founders of
WorldVistA, and served as director from March 1, 2003 to March 14, 2004.
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Director Chuck Link
Chuck Link is a Contracting Officer Technical Representative for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, working
at the field office in Birmingham, Alabama. He has been a member of the VistA community for twenty years, and
spent nine of those years working on VistA's Pharmacy applications. He is one of the Hardhats Volunteers, and
served on the MUMPS Development Committee (MDC) for ten years.
Link served as chairman of the MDC's Subcommittee 16 (Object-Oriented Language), and in that role led a working
group in its biweekly conference calls and quarterly meetings, out of which grew the OpenVistA
project and WorldVistA itself. He works at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs's Field Office in Birmingham,
Alabama. Link was one of the founders of WorldVistA, and later served as a Director of WorldVistA during 2003.
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Director Stan Saiki
Stanley Saiki is the Director of the
Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui (Hui), at
Tripler Army Medical Center and the Director of Clinical Informatics
at the VA Honolulu.
He has spearheaded research projects related to data warehousing, clinical telemedicine, and electronic medical
record development. He serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the
University of Hawaii. In 1998 through 2000, he served as the Director of the
University of Hawaii Telemedicine Project where he coauthored the UH Telemedicine Curriculum. Saiki has also
authored database applications. In his role as Director of the Hui, he helped fund the development of OpenVistA,
and later served as a Director of WorldVistA during 2004.
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