User:DavidWhitten

David Whitten is a VistA manager working at the Central Regional Hospital, under the Division of State owned Hospitals , under the Department of Health and Human Services of the US State of North Carolina. For 18 years, He was a senior computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He has been working in Medical Informatics for over 39 years. He holds a masters degree in computer science with a focus on computational linguistics and has worked on knowledge bases and artificial intelligence.
David is interested in Common Logic as a method to augment the Data Definitions of FileMan Files and Fields used to define VistA (a Hospital Information System created by the US Department of Veterans Affairs) to include more semantic information and enhance the Clinical Decision Support systems used in patient care and research.
He has also worked for such employers as Houston's Methodist Hospital, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as well having the US Department of Defense and Dow Chemicals as clients.
In the artificial intelligence field, he has contributed to the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working group, written the unofficial FAQ on the Cyc system, and founded the Public Domain Knowledge Bank. David Whitten is a longstanding member of the MUMPS Development Committee and was one of the founders of the OpenVistA project and WorldVistA, where he is a  Director and Chief Technology Officer.

David Whitten
(713)870-3834
whitten at netcom.com
whitten at worldvista.org
PO Box 269
Butner NC 27509