The IHS runs an electronic medical record system RPMS that branched from its Veterans Affairs VistA parent system some years ago. In that branch, GUI-scheduling was a must so IHS built one some years ago. Doctor Valdes was seeking a better scheduling user-interface for his staff at the hospital he works at: "The staff at the hospital is capable, hard-working and usually work under demanding conditions. Most find the text-based scheduling user interface to be use able but not optimum. The community has been talking about doing GUI-scheduling for the last 5 years and have made some false-starts towards it." After spending time together at the June 2009 VistA Community Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland Valdes impressed upon Habiel the need and Habiel responded by bringing the RPMS GUI-scheduling over to WorldVistA in a 3 week sprint.