Nancy Anthracite wrote in about: Medsphere's enhancements to VA fileman, a core element of VistA, made by George Timson, who works for Medsphere. The audience was very enthusiastic about both the significant improvements to Fileman and Screenman and the fact that it is to be released to open source. The ability to use the mouse to navigate Screenman is particularly attractive as it makes the navigation of Screenman forms much more like the navigation of the typical of GUI interfaces and thus much more user friendly for the naive user. The WorldVistA meeting attendees eagerly await the release of these enhancement by Medsphere. Unfortunately, there was no information available about how soon the enhancements would be released to the open source community...'

Finally there were many other discussions, announcements and presentations such as a revival of a M (MUMPS) language standards committee, the announcement that GT.M will possibly be ported to Macintosh OS X, a presentation by researchers at University of South Florida for interdisciplinary research using VistA, as well as a party honoring MUMPS pioneers. John Leo Zimmer did a demonstration of his installation of coLinux on a Windows system that allowed him to run VistA on GT.M for demonstration purposes. Bob Lafond discussed a VistA training class he will be offering covering many aspects of VistA that those who are interested in using VistA might be interested in. His web site is here.

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