Projects

Welcome to the WorldVistA Projects Page

The Projects page is the working directory of new and old project ideas. Project of all sizes and effort level are welcome. 

Please supply the following:

• Project title
• Brief description
• Benefit 
• Your name (so we know who to ask for clarification -- anonymous posts are accepted.)
• Email address (optional)

(If you would rather submit your project ideas via email -- send them to webmaster@members.worldvista.org with the subject line: WorldVistA Projects) 

The Process

1. Project ideas and description will be collected and published on this page. Project of all shapes and sizes are welcome. Currenlty thre project is in brainstorming mode.
2. High-level benefit analysis will be applied.
3. Suggestions will be reviewed, prioritized and endorsed by the WorldVistA leadership.
4. Funding will be sought and teams will be organized for projects that are determined to be of high value and show promise of successful completion.

Brainstorming Rules:

1. Offer and collect as many ideas as possible. 
2. All ideas are valuable, the more the better. One crazy idea spawns three rational ideas. 
3. Don't spend time on discussion during brainstorming. Ideas submitted will be analyzed  and deconstructed at length later...
4. Do not be critical of ideas, it stiffles the process and make creative thinkers go back into the box.
5. Build on other ideas. Linking one idea to another is powerful.
6. Capture all ideas and make them visible.
7. Set a time limit. This iteration close on 6/29.

Please add your project suggestion(s) here:

Chris Richardson (to be detailed)

• Training Ideas - Tools, Teachers, and Techniques
• I18N (Internationalization) - Issues and Answers
• Transport of Medical and Health Records
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Developments and Impacts
• New Organizations, MDC (new) and VDC (even newer)
• Ontologies and how VistA fits in with them.

Peter Bodtke (to be detailed)

• Internationalization (support foreign languages, i.e. Spanish) 
• Patch stream updating system (does this project need assistance?)
• Marketing and Public Relations: WorldVistA organization and WorldVistA EHR VOE V1.0 software package
• Installers (WorldVistA EHR VOE w/Registration GUI, VistA/G.TM/Linux)
• Integration - localization interface wizards
• Achieve United Nations NGO status
• Standard Development Architect and Tools
• VistA Documentation Repository
• Educational materials / training materials / bookli>
• VistA Demo Appliance V1.2 (next iteration, including "VistA link", Vitals, Patient Registration GUI)
• Community surveys (members skills and needs, adopters registry, integrators registry)

Project topic found on VistApedia (anonymous and other sources) (to be detailed)

• OpenForum (not sure what this project team had in mind)
• Pediatrics Package (will IHS templates suffice?)
• OB/GYN Package (will IHS templates suffice?)
• Billing Package
• Configuration and Installation
• Ambulatory Care Data Capture
• WorldVistA EHR / VOE FAQs need to be updated
• An information / press kit is needed with key articles, links to demos, etc.
• WorldVistA.org links to software need to be edited
• Combine and edit SourceForge sites (VOE project, WorldVistA EHR, WorldVistA, and VistAOutreach) Add abstract/index and improve naming conventions for software