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The mission of OSEHRA's Education Group is to support the open source software development effort with training on the OSEHR codebase, the culture of open interfaces, modularity and reuse, and the life cycle management of open source software from experimentation to implementation. 

 

"OSEHRA's Multimedia Education Portal"

OSEHRA will provide the community with a multimedia education resources that link existing VistA training resources, open source software development best practices and originally developed training resources and events.  OSEHRA's full spectrum education and training strategy will include online advanced distributed learning, interactive webinars, and face-to-face training sessions and workshops.

 

OSEHRA Training Modules

Module 1: Open Source Software Development Best Practices

Open source software development best practices and why this is important to OSEHRA's community. Example links and content include:

 "Architecture of Open Source Applications"

“Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity”, Siva Vaidhyanathan

"Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy"

Open Technology Development (OTD) Military Lessons Learned

“Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law”, Lawrence Rosen

“Open Source Software Law” Rod Dixon

“Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution” Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper

"Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" Karl Fogel

Red Hat-“The Open Source Way”

Suitable for Mission Critical Applications

"The Art of Community"  Jono Bacon

“The Architecture of Open Source Applications”, Amy Brown, George Wilson

"The Cathedral & the Bazaar"

"The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors"

“The Success of Open Source” Steven Weber

"The "Teaching Open Source" Community"

 

Module 2: OSEHRA Open Source VistA Policies, Procedures & Tools

Module 2 lays out the procedures and tools for establishing, managing, and distributing open source VistA codebase projects within OSEHRA's community. Example links and content include:

 

VA VistA Resources (Governmental)

            CPRS Demo - Try VA’s VistA CPRS software!

VA eHealth University

VA Learning University - Talent Management System

VA Information Resource Center (VIREC)

VA Vista University

RPMS Training, Indian Health Service

 

VistA Training Resources (Non-Governmental)

HardHarts.org

Medsphere.org

WorldVistA

DSS, Inc.: Training

Introducing Mumps - vx2Learning Campus - vxVistA Community

Pioneer Data Systems: Your Source for Quality VistA Training

Shepherd University: VistA & RPMS Health IT Education

ESI Technology Corp.

Sea Island Systems, Inc.

Military Health System (MHS), Open Source Software (OSS) Workshop

            Mil Health System(MHS)-Open Source Software(OSS):Workshop Overview & Brochure

            Military Open Source Software

            Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) Open Source Efforts

            Security and Open Source Software (OSS/FLOSS)

            Quality Improvement in Open Source Software

            Community Innovation_Freedom is a Feature - Open Source

            Case Study: OSS at National Cancer Institute - Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG)

            Intellectual Property Management to Foster Collaboration

            Open Source Software (OSS): Open Science, Open Data, and Open Software

            Canada Health Infoway and Open Source

 

Module 3: OSEHRA Community Support Resources

This module describes the range of resources available to OSEHRA's community, and how to best use them. The resources described include links to community wikis & forums, source code repository, OSEHRA “Groups”, issue trackers, quality control dashboards, Blogs, mailing and membership lists, and educational resources including tutorials and documentation.

 

Module 4: From “Sandbox to Marketplace”

Best practices on translating open source software from experimentation, development and validation to real world utilization; life-cycle management from idea to product; federal acquisition and procurement regulations; transitioning into operations and maintenance; leveraging OSEHRA's community for ongoing continuous improvement and development.