About

Astronaut LLC, benefits society with revolutionary, full-featured, stable electronic medical software as well as products, custom programming, service, training and support.

Contact/Mailing address:

Astronaut, LLC

 3519 Blue Bonnet

Houston, Tx 77025

713-661-1887

email: astronautvista@gmail.com

Team

Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS Dr. Valdes is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with a twenty two year history of working in the healthcare IT arena.  He has been involved with entities such as HealthQuilt, Your Doctor Program, Harris County Health Information Cooperative, the Free Medical Software foundation and WorldVistA. He is the chair of the American Medical Informatics Open Source Working Group and founder of Linux Medical News. He is an award-winning, internationally recognized expert on free and open source medical software and interoperability standards. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences. He completed medical school at Southwestern in Dallas (1998), residency training at the University of Texas at Houston Department of Psychiatry (2001). Prior to medical school he worked for IBM and Compaq as a software and quality control engineer as well as his own software company.  He has a Computer Science degree from Texas A&M (1985) and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Houston (1991).

Fred Trotter Mr. Trotter has extensive experience in development of secure internet applications in healthcare (billing, electronic medical records). He has been Director of Internet Security Services for Uversa, a Security Consultant for multiple hospitals and companies including VeriSign. He previously served as the Computer Services Corporation Project Manager for the Air Force Information Warfare Center. He obtained a BS degree in Computer Science as well as two BA degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Trinity University (1998).

David Whitten is a senior computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He holds a masters degree in computer science and is a recognized expert on knowledge bases and artificial intelligence. He has worked with VistA and its predecessors for more than twenty years while programming 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 as the VA. 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. He is a longstanding member of the MUMPS Development Committee and cofounded the OpenVistA project and WorldVistA.