Xavier Guardiola wrote:
>Hi all,
>As a newbie who is trying to get an overview of Vista current features,
>I'd like ask a pair of questions:
>
>1. How many GUIs do exist?. I mean, I've played with the CPRS demo, but
>VISA has A LOT of modules. Are there other GUIs to manage the rest of
>the modules? (for instance Pharmacy or the blood bank) Or, by default,
>there is only a command-line interface and I must develop the graphical
>interface?

In the VA there is the Delphi based CPRS for clinician's and two interfaces for 
dumb
terminals - classic roll-and-scroll (primary) and screenman that cover 
everything else.
The VA is working on a Java based interface intended to replace it all in a few 
years.

Outside the VA there is the FixIT set of GUI tools from Finland, EsiObjects, 
and M2Web.
There are also derivatives of VistA in other government agencies that have 
their own
interfaces to varying degrees, RPMS in the IHS (Indian Health Service) and CHCS 
in the DOD
(Department of Defence).

>2. What about web interfaces? I've read at worldvista.org that there are
>some efforts aiming at developing them, but do not know whether they
>already exist or not...

They do. None is yet a complete interface to VistA, as far as I know.

M2Web can greatly facilitate the development and deployment of web interfaces 
for MUMPS
based applications such as VistA. As a start, it provides user login sessions 
based on the
VistA user file and includes a capability for viewing MUMPS databases directly 
on the web
that can present virtually all data and metadata in VistA to a web browser in 
various
forms including HTML tables, Javascript objects, and XML.

See http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu for more information and demonstration.

>Thanks in advance,
>
>Xavier

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Jim Self
Systems Architect, Lead Developer
VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
(http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)


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