Yes, it's true! We're having a meeting tomorrow! Please join the VAPALS-ELCAP team tomorrow, January 16, at 1 pm Eastern time (10 am Pacific time). We'll be demonstrating our public repository and walking through the current version of the forms. (There is a more complete agenda below.) These demonstrations are suitible for both technical and non-technical audiences, so we hope to see everybody there!
Please join us in a few minutes, as the Synthetic Patient Data Project Group will be meeting at 2:00 P.M. ET. Please see the Zoom information below as well as the ongoing actions and status list here.
This week, OSEHRA hosted an interactive Innovation Webinar entitled The HHS/IHS Health Information Technology Modernization Analysis Project – Technical Assessment of RPMS. Led by Dr. Theresa Cullen, Regenstrief Institute, and Dr. Howard Hays, Hays Health Informatics Consulting, LLC., this webinar gave an overview of the HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s (OCTO) one-year project to study IHS’ options for modernizing its health information technology (HIT) solutions.
The OSEHRA Technical team is pleased to announce the availability of the September FOIA-RPMS Docker container and the ViViaN-R™ (Visualizing VistA and Namespace - RPMS).
OSEHRA’s Board of Directors met last week, and while reviewing the nominees for this year's Board member election, decided to exercise one of two available Board expansion seats. Prior to this meeting, we were poised to start the Board election today, with Robert Missroon of DSS, Inc. running unopposed for the Open Source Industry Seat, and two candidates for the Organizational Membership Seat (Mike O’Neill, of Medicasoft, and George Rollins, of Perspecta).
This week marks 27 years since Linus Torvalds first announced his “hobby operating system” to the world through a newsgroup post. Today Linux powers numerous facets of the world’s infrastructure and is a thriving legacy system because of successful open source practices. It has become the best-known open source operating system and we are delighted to see many within our community sharing their memories and excitement.
