Weekly Conference Call Jan 12 2007

VistA Community Weekly Conference Call - Fri 12-Jan-2007

• Topic: " VistA Community Meeting -- Rehash part 1" General Discussion

• Organizer / Moderator: Mr. Maury Pepper

Weekly Conference Call Details

The VistA Community is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, (for which we give thanks).

• Date: Friday, January 12, 2007
• Start Time: Fri 6:00 AM HST / 8:00am PST / 12:00pm CET / 11:00pm EST / 4:00 PM GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a telephone (US): 866-483-4159 (toll free)
  • from a phone (Outside USA): 706-634-0093
  • callers from other countries are welcome to call in.
  • Conference ID Number: 5722758
  • Department (if asked): VISTA

• Please review our Virtual Session Tips and Ground Rules - see: Virtual Speaker Tips
• please use Conference Call Etiquette when participating in the call, especially during the Question and Answer time.

• When you attend the call, kindly mention your name, affiliation and job if you aren't already a member of the VistA Community. This helps us include your name in our call summaries on the wiki, on a page similar to this one.

• This conference call, like all other VistA Community events, is open to the public. Information relating to conference calls in general are on the wiki page: http://www.vistapedia.org/~forum/index.php?title=Weekly_Conference_Calls

• this session is shared on this wiki page: http://www.vistapedia.org/~forum/index.php?title=Weekly_Conference_Call_Jan_12_2007

• Please note the call is currently not recorded.

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter Bodtke
  • John Leo Zimmer
  • Maury Pepper
  • Chris Richardson
  • David Whitten
  • Greg Woodhouse

• Expecting:

• Regrets:

Questions We Intend to Discuss Today

• A review of what transpired at the VistA Community Meeting
• Followup on actions planned at the meeting.

Agenda & Proceedings

• Session Format: this is be a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call
  • 1. Opening with a self-introduction of participants (5~10 minutes total) - we'll skip this if we have more than 20 participants
  • 2. Topic introduction by the one of the co-organizers (~5 minutes)
  • 3. Open Q&A and general discussion by all participants (40~50 minutes)
  • 4. Summary / Conclusion / Follow-up (organizer/moderator) ~5 minutes

• Additional Resources:

Questions, Answers & Discourse:

The VistA Community meeting at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, was held Jan 9-11, 2007. We had varied agenda covering many areas of interest to the VistA Community. Topics at the meeting included:

• VistA Office EHR details, and vendors support
• WorldVistA membership structure with proposed benefits and responsibilities
• New Chief of Technology (David Whitten) and plans for projects in 2007
• More active support of this Wiki as a way of documenting
• Members Pages on WorldVistA.ORG website
  • allow usage of Zope/Plone site
• Planned Education Seminars in 2007
  • March meeting at Robert Morris University
  • September meeting at George Mason University
• Planned Technical Meetings in 2007
  • Spring meeting in Atlanta Georgia
  • Summer meeting
  • Fall meeting
  • Winter meeting

• Session ended 2007.01.12 @ 1:10 pm EST