PR: Hui Announces VistA Training Institute

HUI LAUNCHES INITIAL RELEASE OF VISTA TRAINING PROGRAM CURRICULA News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 13, 2006

The Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui (“Hui”) announced the release of the VistA Institute program curricula, a VistA training and certification program curricula. The Hui has made the curricula freely available for downloading on the Hui’s web site at www.pacifichui.org.

In 2005, the Hui partnered with the University of Hawaii and VistA subject matter experts throughout the continental U.S. to develop a VistA training and certification curricula for clinical application coordinators and system administrators.

“The VistA Institute curricula will serve as a resource to enhance the technical and clinical training competency needed to implement, support and encourage adoption of VistA in the healthcare market worldwide,” explained Hui Director Stanley M. Saiki, Jr., M.D.

VistA is a robust, enterprise-wide health information used by the Department of Veterans Affairs and made available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. Described as ‘one of the best healthcare information systems in the nation’ by the Institute of Medicine, the VistA technology been honed over two decades and is used to support the clinical, financial and administrative needs of the VA’s network of 1,300 healthcare facilities, including 160 medical centers.

In 2003 the Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui developed and released Hui OpenVista, an open source, nonproprietary version of the FOIA VistA that runs on Linux and utilizes a nonproprietary database management system developed by Sanchez Computer Associates of Fidelity Information Systems. Hui OpenVista has attracted widespread interest from healthcare and medical research organizations as well as technology companies and software developers worldwide.

The Hui is collaborating with government and the private sector to address the critical need for skilled VistA programmers and clinical application specialists. Through the VistA Institute, the Hui aims to establish a VistA learning resource center that will enable distance learning of the application and increase the proficiency of VistA adopters globally.

The Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui was formed in 1999 with the encouragement and support of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye. A subsidiary of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) under the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, the Hui facilitates interdisciplinary research partnerships with government, academia and industry to advance the development of emerging technologies and improve health care for beneficiaries in the Pacific region.

For more information contact:

Nancy Downes
Marketing Specialist
(808) 433-7345
Nancy.Downes@pacifichui.org
www.pacifichui.org

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