Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Kevin is the one sitting next to Aric Stewart. Hope that helps! You two Gregs just gotta get to some more meetings! On Monday 18 April 2005 12:15 am, Greg Kreis wrote: Alright... which one is you, Kevin! Don't leave us hanging Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Excellent photos--Except the one

Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Agreed, they were great fun to look at. I hope we can count on you to be there at the next meeting in October, with or without a camera. On Sunday 17 April 2005 11:43 pm, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Excellent photos--Except the one of me, of course :-) Thanks Kevin --- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD

[Hardhats-members] IHS system???

2005-04-18 Thread Anna Joseph
Indian Health Service runs a system similar to VistA.. With the little I know about it, seems like they do not use an SSN number to identify the patient but they have record number... which caught my attention! Has anyone worked with this system? Was trying to have a local implementation of it to

Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
http://www.alaskaclinic.com/worldvista/slides/img_2365.html That's me against the wall. The other guy is Aric from CodeWeavers Kevin --- Greg Kreis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright... which one is you, Kevin! Don't leave us hanging Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Excellent

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

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Anna, See if your system has a file# 901 This is the PATIENT/IHS file. Here are the fields as reported by VPE's DD File: PATIENT/IHS Branch: 1 REF NODE;PIECE FLD NUM FIELD NAME

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

2005-04-18 Thread Anna Joseph
Kevin Yes did just check out the file. Surprising to find that all patients have a health record number assigned to them! Does this then mean that to have an implementation of the IHS software you need to apply their patches to a VistA core?Can that be done on the GT.M database itself? Wonder if

Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Hmm...I gave up on trying to get Linux working right on a VAIO. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: http://www.alaskaclinic.com/worldvista/slides/img_2365.html That's me against the wall. The other guy is Aric from CodeWeavers Kevin

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

2005-04-18 Thread Aylesworth Marc A Contr AFRL/IFSE
The HIS website is www.ihs.gov and there are links at the bottom left of the page for RPMS which is the HIS version of vista. I believe you can get software through FOIA. The URL for the RPMS site is: www.ihs.gov/Cio/RPMS/index.cfm It has user and administrator manuals in PDF and other helpful

[Hardhats-members] Relational technology and MUMPS folklore (mini-rant)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
The idea that MUMPS is efficient because it based on a model closer to the actual hardware (actually, operating system) is really just folklore. Globals, like tables, are a high level abstraction that doesn't particularly represent underlying file system structure. If we were to try and stay

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

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Last time I wrote to Albert Toya, who used to make the FOIA CDs, he said the software is now all online at the link posted by Mark. On Monday 18 April 2005 09:05 am, Aylesworth Marc A Contr AFRL/IFSE wrote: The HIS website is www.ihs.gov and there are links at the bottom left of the page for

[Hardhats-members] HealtheVet funding cut

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Congressional Committee Seeks To Cut Funding for VA IT Project http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItemitemID=110183 -- Nancy Anthracite --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds

[Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/822736131.html?MAC=995cfe7284bceb318e9a5098a997569edid=822736131FMT=FTFMTS=FTdate=Apr+15%2C+2005author=STEPHEN+NOHLGRENprintformat=desc=VA+project+funding+hits+hurdle+in+House -- Nancy Anthracite --- SF

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman Export to Foreign format tool. (Was Hospital Cost analysis)

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Self
Kevin wrote: Great. What I want to do is to create a function where my group could drop all progress notes to a huge XML file in the event that they want to move to another system, and I am not around. What fields do you need? If you need all of them then a different solution may be required

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Self
The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must be distressing to anyone who remembers anything about the origins and development of VistA: Information technology at (the) VA is not centrally managed, and the results are poor service to veterans, inefficiency and wasted tax dollars, Indiana

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Bain Henderson
CONCUR! Health care, like politics, is best delivered locally. - Bain At 05:21 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote: The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must be distressing to anyone who remembers anything about the origins and development of VistA: Information technology at (the) VA is not centrally

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Francis . Gilbert
If it weren't for effective central leadership in the past, however, VA would not be the stellar organization it is. Remember, it wasn't very long ago that VA was a place where patient care was marked by some really horrific episodes. Thanks to Dr. Keizer, those days are over. -Original

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman Export to Foreign format tool. (Was Hospital Cost analysis)

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Jim, Thanks for getting back to me on this. I'll need to study it a bit. Thanks! Kevin --- Jim Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin wrote: Great. What I want to do is to create a function where my group could drop all progress notes to a huge XML file in the event that they want to

[Hardhats-members] Wine-enabled CPRS available online

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I've had several requests for the wine-enabled file. So rather than try to send it to everyone, I have put it on my web site. Here is the link: http://69.68.182.66/downloads/OpenVista/wine-CPRS/ Remember, there was a bug in the richedit.dll from wine/cross-over office. Aric Stewart fixed it.

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
I've often wondered why things happened the way they did with DHCP and VistA, politics being what it is. Looking at the timeline and the major political players, my naïve take on it is as follows: Late 1970's -- President Carter -- central management, pre-DHCP goes underground 1980's --

[Hardhats-members] GT.M debugger tool avail

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I have finished phase 1 of my GT.M debugger tool. I had originally planned a mini IDE, but I think I'll stop with a simple debugger. Here is the link for download: http://69.68.182.66/downloads/OpenVista/debugger/ This is the readme that describes it: Debugger Tool What is it? --- A

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Dan
Just like everything else, IT goes in circles. It used to be all server-based, then we had thin/thick clients, now we're heading back to server-based. In another 10 years we'll be doing client-based stuff again. At 05:21 PM 4/18/2005, Jim wrote: The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread A. Forrey
One can certainly appreciate the criticisms of the present VA situation but I agree, that in the past there have been leaders that put the VA where it now is with its exemplary Viosta Archietcture but we now have to induce the VA to again work with the health professional discilpines as well

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Gordon Moreshead
How easily we forget the concept that tended to guide us in those early days of the 80's and somewhat into the 90's. For the infrastructure based approach of the central architecture, we called it Conceptual Integrity. We did have some strong guiding principles that kept the infrastructure

[Hardhats-members] Breaking the cycle

2005-04-18 Thread Greg Woodhouse
There is much truth in the old adage that if we keep asking the same questions we'll keep getting the same answers. One hundrd years ago in 1905, Einstein asked a different questions, and the results were both the birth of quantum mechanics and the theory of special relativity. What questions

RE: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Tom Ackerman
Greg, TAKE A LOOK AT http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/gfs_frm.htm Hope this helps. Regards, Tom Tom Ackerman, CDP President M Systems Plus, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:00 PM To:

RE: [Hardhats-members] BIG NEWS re HealtheVet- St. Petersburg Tim es

2005-04-18 Thread Walton, Edward NMN(WSH)
It is to bad Bob could not do his presentation on Caché. It would have cleared up much of your understanding of Caché. There was a discussion about some of the differences between M and Caché awhile ago that led to Bob offering a class at Boston. Here is my simple answer to your comments. You can

Re: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Maybe I'm just missing it, but what I see is lots of documentation of children of the 0-node, but not the node itself. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Tom Ackerman wrote: Greg, TAKE A LOOK AT http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/gfs_frm.htm Hope this helps.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Breaking the cycle

2005-04-18 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
How aboutthis one: How to best establish a new and improved versiion of the bottom up, user driven, open, collaborative, peer review software development and implementation ecosystem that created VistA and improved it? It is significant to note that these process characteristics are the

[Hardhats-members] Installing KIDS

2005-04-18 Thread Bruce Reed
I have installed the Semi Viva Vista FOIA Gold on my computer at home, per the instructions given from the WorldVista Forum. Everything seems to be working fine so far, but I would like the ability to update the system by loading the KIDS builds from the VA ftp site. When trying to load a KIDS

Re: [Hardhats-members] May RD meeting

2005-04-18 Thread Nancy Anthracite
I heard Seattle mentioned in Boston. On Monday 18 April 2005 09:56 pm, chuck5566 wrote: Is there a location in mind? Even if it's just in mind? On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Brian Lord wrote: Rick asked me to post a clarification which he will probably add too when he gets back from his

RE: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Tom Ackerman
Greg, look at Attribute Dictionary: Field Definition 0-Node Regards, Tom Tom Ackerman, CDP President M Systems Plus, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Woodhouse Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:32 PM To:

Re: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I'm not referring to the 0-node of the field definition, but the 0-node at the file level (e.g., ^DD(19,0)). Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Tom Ackerman wrote: Greg, look at Attribute Dictionary: Field Definition 0-Node Regards, Tom Tom Ackerman, CDP

Re: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Greg, It seems like I had this same question about a month ago. I think that it turned out to not be formally documented (?). You might try doing a search of the archive for ^DD. I'd do it, but I don't have time right now. Kevin Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not referring to the

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

2005-04-18 Thread Anna Joseph
There are loads of modules to download. Seems like a heep... You select one of the modules...download it... then wonder how you have to go about installing it.. which folder to copy it to... Is there not one wholesome file that can be downloaded and then follow some setup /installation steps? Can

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

2005-04-18 Thread Anna Joseph
Just figured out that the HEALTH RECORD NO is the same as the SSN we entered for the patient! Anna - Original Message - From: Anna Joseph To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] IHS