Re: AKLUG Presentation: Introduction to Dept of Veterans Affairs Health Software

Thanks Fielder for stepping up and making the anouncement. It's nice
to have the support of the other members for the presentations that
have been set-up! I'm looking forward to this as well.

Mike B.

Quoting Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.org>:

> Greetings all, on Friday, September 14, 2007, Mike Baker of the VA
> Clinic here in Anchorage will present an introduction to the Department
> of Veterans Affairs (no longer the Veterans Administration but still
> abbreviated as VA) Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology
> Architecture (VISTA). Point your browser to the following URI for a
> brief description of VISTA (nothing to do with the Johnny-come-lately
> bunch in Redmond, Washington):
>
> http://www.va.gov/vista_monograph/
>
> Mike Baker wrote in reply to my suggestion for his presentation:
> This was in fact my plan, to give a brief history because that helps
> to explain how the software was developed and why it encompasses so
> much configuration just to get a system installed and ready to be
> used.
>
> Then give a very brief demonstration of the software from the live CD,
> using both the terminal and the windows client software running under
> wine. Any thing beyond that will be overwhelming for me and most
> certainly boring to anyone not involved in health care.
>
> My main purpose in doing this at all is to somehow give something back
> to this group. I have learned a lot by reading posts from this group
> and I have used things I learned here at my job where I am moving the
> VA towards using Linux and other open source software. I also am
> proud of the software the VA has produced and would like to see it
> considered and promoted when computer professionals are asked for
> opinions on medical records software.
>
> As a client of the Anchorage VA Clinic for the past ten years, I have
> seen and appreciated the changes in the software the Clinic uses as part
> of the health care system. I am quite impresses and looking forward to
> this presentation.
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen / Best regards Debian/GNU Linux
> Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm "etch" Testing
> dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska User Number 269482
> Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service. "Seth" 186667
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Received on Tue Sep 11 16:51:28 2007