RE: [Hardhats-members] Wish list?

2005-10-12 Thread Richard . Sowinski
I guess the one thing I'm wondering about on somebody's wish list is requesting interfaces for commercial devices. My thought is that the vendor of the commercial system should pay to have a developer or company, write those interfaces. Doing it for free, makes the vendor rich, by making his

RE: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails?

2005-10-07 Thread Richard . Sowinski
This is incorrect. Over 50 VA sites have installed GUI Mail, along with sites outside of the VA. It runs on Forum the National Vista e-mail server. GUI Mail is a Delphi-based front end to the underlying Vista Mail system. It allows attachments, and the newest version also addresses the GAB if you

RE: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails?

2005-10-07 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Yes, Exchange is highly utilized in VA. There is no question about that. But, how many things does Exchange do that VistA Mail can't do, especially when enhanced with GUI Mail or other GUI clients? This is even taking into consideration that VistA mail has been in deep maintenance mode for a

RE: [Hardhats-members] help with vista

2005-09-16 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Samuel, there are several ways to assign a patient to a ward and a bed, but the patient must be admitted first so use the Admit a Patient option in VistA. In that option you will be prompted for a ward and a bed. You can later Transfer him/her to another ward and bed if you wish. All of these

RE: [Hardhats-members] help with vista

2005-09-16 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Samuel, My advice is to go to the Vista Documentation Library at this URL. http://www.va.gov/vdl/Clinical.asp?appID=55 And read the Supervisor ADT Menu document and then the Bed Control Menu document. I think you will find your answers there. Along with the answers to some questions you haven't

RE: [Hardhats-members] Don't know if you've seen this

2005-09-14 Thread Richard . Sowinski
And if you can't see the attachment it's also at this website http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ under "What's New". From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sowinski, Richard J. Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:21 AM To:

RE: [Hardhats-members] Install MPI AUSTIN

2005-09-13 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Usha, did you do all your FTP'ing in ascii mode? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Usha Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:01 AM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Hardhats-members] Install MPI AUSTIN Hi We are doing some

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: CMS: GET OFF THE POT.

2005-08-26 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Also, with all of this Open Source development that is supposedly going to be taking place (and I believe some will because VistA and VOE will garner some percentage of the marketplace), who will be handing out namespaces and number spaces, etc, so all of this pent-up creativity plays well

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: CMS: GET OFF THE POT.

2005-08-25 Thread Richard . Sowinski
How could someone contribute to VOE (besides being an alpha tester), unless they work for DAOU? Am I missing something? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:08 PM To:

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: MUMPS features

2005-08-16 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Yes, I really don't get caught up in the semantics too much. But you're right these are more features that I would have liked to have seen available in M development environments. I'm guessing there just was not enough competition in the M marketplace to truly force these issues. Some vendor(s)

RE: [Hardhats-members] Another VistA-Office EHR article

2005-08-02 Thread Richard . Sowinski
They must have removed the first article on Trademark Arrogance from their website. It's not there now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maury Pepper Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:41 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

RE: [Hardhats-members] Importing Mass Data

2005-07-29 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Mark, Mark, I'm guessing you're dealing with a non-veteran population. I don't have time to test using the Fileman Import function, but I was able to get a record into the patient file programmatically by filling in the fields Mr. Holloway calls out in his message, as I expected I could. NAME:

[Hardhats-members] Anyone think this may cause some confusion?

2005-07-22 Thread Richard . Sowinski
http://news.com.com/Longhorns+new+name+Windows+Vista/2100-1016_3-5799734.html?tag=sas.email

RE: [Hardhats-members] Windows Vista!!!!!

2005-07-22 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Could have been, I turned 50 this year, so forgive me if I named the wrong person as the winner. But getting back to the point, it seems odd to some of us that Microsoft would choose this name, and at this time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [Hardhats-members] Windows Vista!!!!!

2005-07-22 Thread Richard . Sowinski
A lunchtime search of US copyright code, turned this up. As I read it, the gov't cannot originate a copyright for its own work, but if someone wants to transfer to the gov't a copyright they already own, they can, and then the gov't owns it. But now I'm thinking you need to trademark a name, and

RE: [Hardhats-members] Windows Vista!!!!!

2005-07-22 Thread Richard . Sowinski
OK, I think I've conceded that. However, it was Al Gore who invented the internet, correct? At least I remember the important stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mobley, Sharon C. Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:20 PM To:

RE: [Hardhats-members] GUI Reg Billing?

2005-06-23 Thread Richard . Sowinski
I think there are some +'s and -'s to both. Obviously, the roll and scroll can run on dumb terminals. Therefore eliminating the need for PC's and PC operating systems that are vulnerable to attack. Probably a +, especially in third world implementations, where cost, and sophisticated network

RE: [Hardhats-members] GUIMail 2.2.1 available

2005-06-20 Thread Richard . Sowinski
. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Bhaskar, KSSent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:05 PMTo: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Hardhats-members] GUIMail 2.2.1 available Thanks to Richard Sowinski, GUIMail 2.2.1 is available

RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-09 Thread Richard . Sowinski
] == VistaWeb Missing Apps == Richard Sowinski wrote: The reason I have asked people on this list if they have VistaWeb up and running, is because I suspect they underestimate the infrastructure required under the hood, to make it, or RDV run. I also suspect, some have misconstrued what VistaWeb is. I think

RE: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-08 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Actually it looks like the file that holds the data about where each patient has been seen, is file 391.91, the Treating Facility file. Now that I know which RPC you used, it waspretty easy to figure that out. - Rich -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Hardhats-members] How to get the MailMan client

2005-06-07 Thread Richard . Sowinski
We have just completed a new version of the GUI Mail Client which contains some nice enhancements. It is called version 2.2 andit is not up on Hardhats yet. GUI Mail is a class III product, developed here at the Indianapolis VA Medical Center, which is why you don't see it at ftp.va.gov

RE: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDO R SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Richard . Sowinski
I guess I'd like to hear a possible scenario where some organization like VA would be calling World Vista for support, when they have an army of their own in-house support people. I'm just trying to understand what future scenario you see Greg, that I can't visualize, yet. -Original

RE: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDO R SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Richard . Sowinski
I'm not a lawyer either, but I think what you're saying is that it might be illegal for any current federal employee to moonlight for any organization that has any contract with the federal gov't. If this is true, I'm betting that particular law, is violated frequently. The way I would see

RE: [Hardhats-members] Way to go, IHS!

2005-04-29 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Joseph, I don't think you are splitting hairs when you raise the question about VueCentric. I know the developers of VueCentric monitor this list, chime in on rare occasions, and would be capable of answering your question, if they choose to. But, I can also tell you that if I were the

RE: [Hardhats-members] IHS system???

2005-04-21 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Kevin, I am not aware of any hard feelings between IHS and VA. Your first annonymous poster seemed to want to create some, though. IMO anyone who wants to post annonymously, to this board, is expecting to create controversy, but wants to avoid responsibilty for what they say. Kind of like

RE: [Hardhats-members] Configurability of fields in FileMan

2005-04-19 Thread Richard . Sowinski
I agree with Richard on this. Changing the DD definition of a commonly used field like SSN, would most likely have some unwanted, and unintended side-effects. Code that references SSN, would not always be in the Data Dictionary. It would also be in routines, sometimes obscured by indirection.

RE: [Hardhats-members] VistA Web

2005-03-25 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Nancy, No, Vista Web is an alternative to Remote Data Views. Its advantage over RDV's it that it is faater and more efficient. Not as much watching the hourglass. It is a view only application. I think what you are referring to is a new version of CPRS that will be coming out later this year.

RE: [Hardhats-members] RPC calls mapping to OpenVista routines

2005-03-11 Thread Richard . Sowinski
The Remote Procedure File #8994 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:25 PMTo: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Hardhats-members] RPC calls mapping to OpenVista

RE: [Hardhats-members] RE: A parallel strategy for evolving VistA - Re: [Hardhats-member s] MDC Revival

2005-03-04 Thread RICHARD SOWINSKI
Jim, the stovepipes are the underlying clinical (and some clinical/administrative) packages, such as Lab, Pharmacy, V-files, PCE, TIU, Bed Control, PTF, Radiology, etc.Many of these packages were developed years ago (I believe initially atdifferentmedical centers, and then at different Field

[Hardhats-members] RE: A parallel strategy for evolving VistA - Re: [Hardhats-member s] MDC Revival

2005-03-02 Thread Richard . Sowinski
A rational plan A might have been to re-engineer Vista such that the clinical packages were lighter, more like front-ends to an underlying clinical repository, which stored all the results and data for lab tests, procedures, prescriptions, problem lists, diagnoses, etc. in a standardized, easily

[Hardhats-members] Nice article in Washington Monthly about VHA and Vista

2005-02-11 Thread Richard . Sowinski
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RE: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library

2004-12-03 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Kevin, You are battling an age-old predjudice against M. It seems M was considered old technology (by the un-informed), before it was old ! I think alot of the predjudice goes back to the poorly chosen (IMO) name of MUMPS, for the language. Had it has been named Laser or maybe just M in the

RE: [Hardhats-members] Story: EHR Vendors Unite for Interoperabil ity

2004-11-19 Thread Richard . Sowinski
Medicine (in some ways) is a more complicated domain. Launching a spacecraft is simply a matter of kinematics, dynamics, and some fairly determistic equations that never change. But, we get your point. -Original Message- From: Joseph Dal Molin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,