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WVEC 1

2007-01-27T02:03:56Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Conference Course Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591; Phone 1 412 262 3600, Fax: 1 412 631 1355; Toll-free: 1 800 333 4835
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rate ($79.00 + tax per night) available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

8.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

9. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron;

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2007-01-27T01:46:09Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Conference Course Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rate ($79.00 + tax per night) available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

8.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

9. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron;

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2007-01-27T01:39:51Z

VHarvey4: /* Other Resources */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Conference Course Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rates available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

8.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

9. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron;

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2007-01-27T01:38:36Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Conference Course Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rates available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

8.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

9. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron; VSA events:

''Next:''
1.1 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, Nov. 7-8, 2006, Perot Campus, Plano, TX

''Past:''
1.2 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, April 20, 2006, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2007-01-27T01:37:48Z

VHarvey4: /* Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rates available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

8.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

9. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron; VSA events:

''Next:''
1.1 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, Nov. 7-8, 2006, Perot Campus, Plano, TX

''Past:''
1.2 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, April 20, 2006, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2007-01-27T01:36:11Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education & Training Working Group is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Lodging: Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport, 8256 University Blvd, Moon Township, PA 15108-2591
See: http://www.hipittsburgh.com/ and identify group as RMU-WorldVistA
Conference Site: Sewall Conference Center on RMU Moon Township Campus.
The Holiday Inn will provide complimentary shuttle service to and from Pittsburgh International Airport and to and from the RMU Sewall Center.
Conference Dates: March 5 through March 7, 2007; group rates available beginning March 3 to accommodate staff and presenters (and early arrivers).

The conference agenda includes the following topics:

Software Lifecycle and Community Structure
Patient Safety and Confidentiality
Basic VOE System Management
Installing and Configuring VistA-Office EHR
CPRS Cover Sheet
CPRS Meds Tab
CPRS Orders Tab
CPRS Notes Tab
CPRS Reports Tab
CPRS Health Summary
CPRS Problem List
CPRS Text Integration Utility progress notes
Mumps Pocket Tour – Most Important Syntax
VA FileMan
Infrastructure for Users
Linux Fundamentals (LNX-100)

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

9.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron; VSA events:

''Next:''
1.1 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, Nov. 7-8, 2006, Perot Campus, Plano, TX

''Past:''
1.2 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, April 20, 2006, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-10T12:26:52Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

See VSA entry below for VSA events.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

9.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron; VSA events:

''Next:''
1.1 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, Nov. 7-8, 2006, Perot Campus, Plano, TX

''Past:''
1.2 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, April 20, 2006, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-10T12:26:01Z

VHarvey4: /* Other Resources */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

9.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA) See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron; VSA events:

''Next:''
1.1 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, Nov. 7-8, 2006, Perot Campus, Plano, TX

''Past:''
1.2 VistA Community Leadership Meeting at Shepherd University, April 20, 2006, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-09T23:42:00Z

VHarvey4: /* Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

9.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA)

1.1 See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-09T23:40:50Z

VHarvey4: /* Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: */ add ucd

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)''' Medical Informatics (MDI)

9.1. MDI 215. Beginning and Intermediate Programming in M (MUMPS) Online lecture--10 hours. See [http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/MDI/MDIcourses.html]

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA)

1.1 See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-09T23:23:14Z

VHarvey4: Add VSA

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Other Resources ==

1. Vista Software Alliance (VSA)

1.1 See http://www.vistasoftware.org/; contact: Marlene Jones, Executive Director or Claudine Beron

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-09T23:19:09Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned tentatively for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-09T23:14:22Z

VHarvey4: /* Commercial Sources of Education/Training */ Add ESI

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''ESI Technology Corporation''

2.1 See [http://www.esitechnology.com/] for course listings.

3. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

3.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-04T14:24:29Z

VHarvey4: /* Publications Projects */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA recognition: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-04T14:19:42Z

VHarvey4: /* Publications Projects */ add VistA Resources

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

VistA Resources (Books, Papers, Presentations); VistA awards: http://home.earthlink.net/~inforef/VistAResources.htm

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-10-02T00:45:44Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ add Joe to planning comm

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Joe Tastrom, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-27T01:31:59Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ add conf details

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

In general, this conference plans to provide courses in such categories as systems administration (Kernel, FileMan, MUMPS, InterSystems Caché, GT.M, Delphi, CPRS), Clinical Reminders, TIU (Text Integration Utility), CPRS Configuration, and on other topics.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-27T01:25:41Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-27T01:24:10Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ Fix dates add planning committee

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates: Monday March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Persons involved in setup, Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Planning Committee: Becky Monroe, Maggie Anderson, Mark Amundson, Dave Whitten, Nancy Anthracite, Rick Marshall, Valerie Harvey (Ed Team Chair). Please send recommendations and questions to Valerie Harvey <harvey@rmu.edu>; phone: 412-262-8467, fax: 412-397-2481, or to other planning committee members.

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-26T13:24:01Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the ''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'', planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-26T13:23:31Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

The Education Team will contribute an Education Track for the 14th WorldVistA Community Meeting, planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-26T13:23:15Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ add 14th WVCE preim

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

The Education Team will contribute and Education Track for the 14th WorldVistA Community Meeting, planned for January 2007 in the Washington, DC, area.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-26T13:21:17Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ stet

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-26T13:20:32Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ readd 2nd conf info

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

A second WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar is being planned for later in 2007 at a different site.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-24T19:29:13Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-24T19:23:13Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Learning Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-24T19:22:33Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-24T19:22:01Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Learning Conference and Seminar'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

There is also planning for a 2nd WorldVistA Education Conference in later 2007 at a different site.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-23T22:21:10Z

VHarvey4: /* Commercial Sources of Education/Training */ fix R Kay's address

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Education Conference'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

There is also planning for a 2nd WorldVistA Education Conference in later 2007 at a different site.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us] E-mail address: kaycom@yahoo.com

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-22T16:22:56Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Education Conference'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

There is also planning for a 2nd WorldVistA Education Conference in later 2007 at a different site.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-22T16:22:19Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ remove 14 WVCE

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''1st WorldVistA Education Conference'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-7, 2007

There is also planning for a 2nd WorldVistA Education conference in later 2007 at a different site.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-18T23:59:39Z

VHarvey4: /* Events: */ Add Conferences Info

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

'''14th WorldVistA Community Meeting'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 3-6, 2007

'''1st WorldVistA Education Conference'''
Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 5-8, 2007

There is also planning for a 2nd WorldVistA Education conference in later 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-14T18:28:48Z

VHarvey4: /* Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Its purpose is to educate and inform health professional disciplines about the origins, structure and intended uses of the Electronic Health Record in the unified support of both patient care and resource management within healthcare. This site also cooperates with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division. For information, contact Arden Forrey, UW School of Dentistry.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-14T18:23:25Z

VHarvey4: /* Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

2.2. EHR Web Site: http://www.ehrweb.org/ Created by the Division of Information Technology and Research (DITR) of the Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, which hosts this site and collaborates with the Health Information Administration Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T19:01:33Z

VHarvey4: Add TIPG UH

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Telecommunications and Policy Group (TIPG): ''VistA Institute''; see http://vistainstitute.com

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T17:32:25Z

VHarvey4: /* Commercial Sources of Education/Training */

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''InterSystems Corporation'', Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T17:30:51Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. InterSystems Corporation, Cambridge, MA: http://www.intersystems.com/

1.1 To be added

2. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA:

2.1 M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T17:12:48Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): March 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA: M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T17:11:01Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): Msrch 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training ==

1. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA: M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T17:10:29Z

VHarvey4: Add HITS info

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

Location: RMU Campus, Moon Township, PA (near Pittsburgh Int'l Airport)
Dates (preliminary): Msrch 2-9, 2007

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Commercial Sources of Education/Training

1. ''Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc.'', Bremerton, WA: M and VA FileMan boot camps in January 2007; Rodney H. Kay, ; see [http://events.hits-inc.us]

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T01:48:30Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Publications Projects ==

1. '''VistA Life Cycle''': Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. '''VistA Textbook''': Dave Whitten

3. '''FileMan Paper''': Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. '''M Textbook''': Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T01:47:21Z

VHarvey4: Add Publications Projects

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

== Publications Projects ==

1. VistA Life Cycle: Rick Marshall, Sushil Acharya, Dave Whitten

2. VistA Textbook: Dave Whitten

3. FileMan Paper: Cameron Schlehuber, George Timson, Augie Turano, Valerie Harvey

4. M Textbook: Gretchen Bradfield, Valerie Harvey

To contribute to or make recommendations for any of these projects, please contact one or more of the authors.

Please send information for this page to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA Software Development Education Team

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2006-09-13T01:13:09Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu ; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

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2006-09-13T01:10:43Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1

6.2. Course 2

6.3. Course 3

6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

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2006-09-13T01:09:54Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''

1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''

2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''

3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''

4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''

5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1
6.2. Course 2
6.3. Course 3
6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''

7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

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2006-09-13T01:08:28Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==

1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”

2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp

3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85

4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu
4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu

5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.

6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.

6.1. Course 1
6.2. Course 2
6.3. Course 3
6.4. Course 4

7. '''Shepherd University'''
7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.

8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''

9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''

9.1. M Programming On-line.

10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

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2006-09-13T01:06:49Z

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== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the ''WorldVistA Education Conferences'' in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==
1. '''Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)'''1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”
2. '''University of Washington (UW)'''2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp
3. '''University of Pittsburgh'''3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85
4. '''Robert Morris University (RMU)'''4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu
4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu
5. '''George Mason University (GMU)'''5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.
6. '''University of Hawaii (UH)'''; Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.
6.1. Course 1
6.2. Course 2
6.3. Course 3
6.4. Course 4
7. '''Shepherd University'''
7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.
8. '''Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)'''
9. '''University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)'''
9.1. M Programming On-line.
10. '''University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL)'''; contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T01:03:43Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the WorldVistA Education Conferences in 2007.

== Interested/Participating Institutions and Program Examples: ==
1. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
1.1. 1027-305 M Programming (in Biomedical Computing Program): http://www.rit.edu/~676www/Courses/z-1027-305.html; for information contact Prof. Nicolas Thireos nat4087@rit.edu; description: “An in-depth study of the M programming language and its database capabilities. Programming projects are required and are taken from the health care field. Direct mode, local/global/special variables, commands, arguments, operators, writing and executing routines, M editors, screen/printer formatting, string manipulation, pattern matching, concatenation, arrays and trees, multilevel and string subscripts, input/output using devices, cross reference files, indirection.”
2. University of Washington (UW)
2.1. HIA 420 Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic Health Records; for information contact Gretchen Murphy, RHIA gcmurphy@u.washington.edu; comments: “We have explored a couple of ways to use VistA. Students have worked with loading the software, setting up user accounts and working through a set of questions to identify the scope and functionality of VistA. Because the students in this program are trained as health information administrators, we focus on how they will use VistA to meet the basic business needs - documenting care, transferring information for care, identifying designated data sets for other information purposes, and the like. Next winter I will be teaching an adaptation of this course for the School of Nursing Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technology master's program. For program, see: http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu/edp/majors/health_courses.asp
3. University of Pittsburgh
3.1. HRS 1490/2490 EHR Technology for the Health and Rehabilitation Professional; for information contact Prof. Valerie Watzlaf, RHIA valgeo@pitt.edu; web site for Prof. Valerie Watzlaf: http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/CMS/School/Faculty_Bio.asp?id=85
4. Robert Morris University (RMU)
4.1. INFS3140, M Programming – For information, contact Prof. Don Caputo caputo@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu
4.2. INFS3141, Advanced M and Caché ObjectScript Programming – For information, contact Prof. Valerie J. Harvey harvey@rmu.edu ; search RMU website at http://www.rmu.edu
5. George Mason University (GMU)
5.1. HSCI 740, Management of Health Information Systems – For information, contact Prof. Farrokh Alemi; comments: this course is an introduction to electronic health records and uses VistA to demonstrate the concepts. The course web page is at http://hsci.gmu.edu/740 ; a course description, the syllabus and most lectures are posted at this web site.
6. University of Hawaii (UH); Contact. Prof. Lingaton kaina@tipg.net , Soc. Sci. Research Institute.
6.1. Course 1
6.2. Course 2
6.3. Course 3
6.4. Course 4
7. Shepherd University
7.1. Courses in planning (health informatics, EHR); for information contact Prof. Peter Groen.
8. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
9. University of California at Davis (UC-Davis)
9.1. M Programming On-line.
10. University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL); contact Scott Sittig, RHIA.

Please send information to Valerie J. Harvey, R.T.(R), Ph.D., Computer & Information Systems, Robert Morris University: harvey@rmu.edu, Chair, WorldVistA
Software Development Education Team

WVEC 1

2006-09-13T00:49:08Z

VHarvey4:

== Events: ==

The Education Team is now planning for the WorldVistA Education Conferences in 2007.

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2006-09-13T00:48:29Z

VHarvey4:

== Headline text ==
Events:

We are now planning for the WorldVistA Education Conferences in 2007.