Dr. Kursunoglu, If you are in Wasilla or are going to be there I could perhaps help a little. I have been a programmer for the VA for almost 20 years and have setup a number of the VistA packages and have helped solve problems in many of the packages. I don't know all the user setup for many of the packages but I can get you in touch with a couple of the Clinical Application Coordinators here in Anchorage. They really know how to make CPRS work and are considered experts by many of their peers. We have talked many times of how we would like to see a clinic in town use an open source stack of software. We have also worked at the Alaska Native Medical Center and have many contacts there as well.
Anyway welcome to AK, as I'm sure you already know the daylight hours are quickly lengthening and if we get some more snow it will be a much more pleasant place to be. We also have a very active Linux Users Group and they are very helpful and quick to answer questions. Just go to http://www.aklug.org Mike On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:15:17 -0800, Ismet B. Kursunoglu, MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Over the last 2 months I have been searching and reading with great enthusiasm > the postings to this list and would like to thank you all for the excellent > information and advice that you all generate. > > First, I would like to send my condolences to you all regarding the passing of > your colleague Fil Beza. He clearly gave so much to the community. It was > though reading many of his technical postings that I was able to load and > give Vista a try. It would no doubt have been wonderful to meet with him > one day. I am sorry to hear of his passing. > > Starting about a year ago I started looking at the various projects in the > FOSS community as I knew I wanted some form of EMR system to use in our new > clinic in Wasilla, Alaska. Over the last three months I started to look more > closely at the various projects but found that while they have some very good > roadmaps they just aren't "there" yet. So knowing of the FOIA Vista I > thought I would give it a shot. > > I started with the single version of Cache under Windows XP but got bogged > down and couldn't get Vista to run. Then I learned of G.TM and K.S. > Bhaskar's OpenVistASemiVivA0.4.tgz Ta Da! Wow I thought. After a couple of > day of reading the various on-line documents I was able to install and start > G.TM/Vista on this Debian/Sarge system and connect with CPRS v 1.0.23.15 from > a XP client on the LAN (much thanks to the pioneers and creators of Vista, as > well as to Kevin Toppenberg, Nancy Anthracite, K.S. Bhaskar, the good folks > at http://www.pacifichui.org/, all those who support Vista and create the > canonical documents and many more of you that I haven't mentioned). > > I knew that Vista is an extensive software system with scope way beyond what I > will actually use, but I figure why not use such a system from the start > given all of the resources, testing and development that have gone into the > product. > > When I first successfully started the server process - i.e. > > GTM>D STRT^XWBTCP(9200) > Start TCP Listener... > Checking if TCP Listener has started... > TCP Listener started successfully. > GTM> > > I felt like someone had dropped me into the pilot's seat of an F-16, started > up the engines and pointed me at the runway! And there I was, all this power > and a huge learning curve ahead of me. I would like to continue on this path, > if possible/practical and adapt and use Vista/Linux/Openvista in the new > offices. > > I am not a trained programmer, but I would consider myself at an intermediate > level of understanding and use of GNU/Linux and the free software tool chain, > servers, security, networking, printing and the like. I clearly don't have > the knowhow to fully configure and adapt this test system to go into > production. But I very much like the idea of contributing and extending the > OpenVista/WorldVista vision and wonder what would be the best way to proceed. > > There are obviously many approaches that I have seen including adapting the > environment for web enabled solutions and so on (Jim Self's work in this area > looks very interesting). Bhaskar mentioned to me that the HUI project was > going to start up a ASP based solution, I have also read about the > OfficeVista project and so on. > > Would there be someway to "graft" a network of Linux workstations onto > G.TM/Vista using some sort of curses based interface? Perhaps using the > virtual consoles to go back and forth depending on the users role (i.e. > patient registration, text based data, lab, reports etc..) and avoid the CPRS > client all together? Is there such a thing? > > Further would it be possible to extend the GNU/Linux core configuration, > start-up and user tools (i.e. based on flat /etc ) to access and configure a > the Vista system easing the whole process? For example one could have the > initialization all under /etc/init.d/? > > As far as the client goes I don't really want or need anything "fancy" - just > plain text will do in most instances - I would rather use tools like vim, > lynx, mutt, ssh, or a simple X windowing system with lots of x-terminals. How > that would work with users and integrate with existing billing systems I > don't know. > > I do know that growth will happen, that Vista is a very stable and scalable > product and that it can extend to any level of care that we may be offering > now and in the future. I especially like the idea of running it all under > the GPL'd G.TM layer. > > Any ideas or pointers would be very much appreciated. > > At this moment I am still here in our skeleton offices in Los Angeles. I will > be heading up to the new office in AK on Thursay. Then back to NYC and > finally hope to open the office to see patients by May. > > Thanks very much for any observations or advice. > > regards, > > Ismet > > -- > Ismet Kursunoglu, MD, FCCP > Medical Director > Alaska Clinic, LLC > 3750 Country Field Circle, UNIT B > Wasilla, Alaska 99654 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. 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