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Here at VISTA Expertise Network we want to help. If you're stumped by a VISTA-related issue, just call us -- if we can't solve your issue we can point you in the direction of someone who can. For ongoing VISTA support we offer affordable solutions to meet your needs.

We also provide access to VISTA-related support resources including our upcoming patch release newsletter and FAQ. Follow the links below to other VISTA community resources provided by other organizations.

Events

Upcoming

The 24th VISTA Community Meeting, hosted by WorldVistA, will be held at UC Davis, Sacramento, California, on January 13-15, 2012.

VISTA Expertise Network has tentatively selected September 11-14, 2012 as the date of our next VISTA Expo & Symposium. We are still in the process of selecting the location.

Recent Events

The 23rd VISTA Community Meeting was held on May 23-25, 2011 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Our Executive Director, Rick Marshall, was in attendance to give presentations on the future of VISTA. (Synopses forthcoming.)

Here is a video of Rick Marshall giving a speech at the Underground Railroad Banquet honoring Ted O'Neill. (Thanks to Joseph Dal Molin for filming and Tom Munnecke for posting.)

The 22nd VISTA Community Meeting was held on January 14-16, 2011 at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

VISTA Expertise Network was in attendance in full force and organized daily events focussed on the development of open source lab, Fileman, and Kernel. Here is our extensive event synopses of that weekend.

In addition, VISTA Expertise Network hosted a Paideia Peer Review of former students and VISTA programmers prior to the Community Meeting on January 12-13, 2011 at the University Heights Community Center, Seattle, Washington. (Synopses forthcoming.)

VISTA in the News

27 August 2010

MUMPS to be retained for VA VISTA system
by Alice Lipowicz for Federal Computer Week

VA IT assistant secretary Roger Baker confirms MUMPS computer language will continue to run the VA's medical record system.


30 June 2010

Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers through Innovative Wireless Health Technologies
from Brookings Institution

In testimony before the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs, Darrell West argues that wireless health technologies can provide quality and accessible care to rural veterans.


29 June 2010

HP edging toward VISTA support?
by Dana Blankenhorn for ZDNet Healthcare

Hewlett Packards former Avaya unit, now an independent company, participated in the recent review of the VAs VISTA software, an open source project since before the term existed.


28 May 2010

VA announces 26 winning ideas of its health IT Initiative
by Molly Merrill for Healthcare IT News

A list of ideas from the VHA/OIT competition for innovating VISTA.


26 February 2010

Hospitals are making a push towards Electronic Health Records
from Biomed ME

The VA has been using its computerized patient record system (CPRS) system for the past decade, and its doctors report that it has greatly improved the care of some eight million veterans.


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