OK, I have it done. Here are some screen shots.
http://69.68.182.66/downloads/OpenVista/CPRShtml.jpg
http://69.68.182.66/downloads/OpenVista/CPRShtml.jpg
These are two views of one note. The pictures are
demo pictures found off of Google -- (no actual
patients have been harmed in the creating of this
demo)
I am still working on printing issues, but my
outlook
is good.
Kevin
--- Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some may remember that I created a CPRS hack that
would allow a simple imaging system by
broadcasting
any <img> tags found in a progress note. This
worked,
but it requires the user to run a separate program
and
toggle between the two. It's less than ideal.
A better solution would be to have the image
appear
directly where one would view progress notes. So
I
was quite excited to realize that CPRS already had
fairly extensive tie-ins to a web
browser--functionality that was never implemented
(yet).
So today I decided to extend that to the progress
notes. I followed the same pattern used for
Reports
(which is where the web browser support was
alreday),
and put a web browser "behind" the Memo object
that
normally shows the note.
To complete the project, I must do the following:
1. write a short function that looks at the note
sent
by the server, and decide if it is an HTML file.
2. If the note is an HTML file, I will write the
note
to a local temp file.
3. I will then instruct the browser to navigate to
the
local file. This will cause the HTML note to be
viewable. I then put the web browser "in front
of"
the normal memo field and make it visible.
4. If the note is not an HTML file, then make the
memo
field visible, the web browser invisible.
5. Ensure that the local file gets killed when not
being used so as to not leave a patient note on
the
local computer.
I should be able to do this in another day.
But is this a good thing to do? I'd appreciate
some
feedback on this one. Here are some sequelae that
I
see from doing this:
1. If users can view an HTML progress note, they
will
want to be able to write one. This means having
to
link in WYSIWYG HTML editor.
2. Printing with server-side routines will not be
HTML
aware, and all the <tags> would be printed out.
3. Client-side (CPRS) printing would have to allow
the
web browser to print out notes that are HTML,
whereas
other notes are printed with CPRS functions. Not
a
big deal, but there may be differences.
I think the potential of this project to be quite
cool. It would be very nice to show images
directly
in a progress note, and also to have colors,
bolds,
italics etc available.
Feedback is always appreciated. :-)
Kevin
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