My assumption (perhaps wrong) was that depending on Imaging to do
this was causing problems for you. FWIW, if I were to try and design
an independent solution, I'd do something like this:
1. Create a new SCANNED DOCUMENT file.
2. I assume you want to associate documents with patients, and
provide a convenient way to view these documents in CPRS. Assuming
this to be the case, I would consider making the .01 field a pointer
to file 2. In truth, I'm not overly crazy about this design and would
probably consider other alternatives, too, but this is the most
typical approach in Vista. (Not to be overly pedantic, this design
reminds me of the overuse of inheritance in OO designs, discussed,
for example by Gamma et al, in "Design Patterns".)
3. I'd then create a subfile to store URLs for the scanned documents.
4. I'd make the .01 field a numeric identifier or a label of some
sort, and put the URL in an extract (free text) field on a separate
node.
5. Additional fields in the subfile would be for various types of
metadata, and I'd be sure to include a word processing COMMENTS field.
6. I would use Apache as a document repository.
7. Documents would be uploaded with POST (possibly requiring a new
module) or PUT. OR, you could use WebDAV. Now, that I think about
it, WebDAV is probably the best solution here.
8. I would add a list box control to select a document, probably
using the FM Delphi components.
9. Finally, I'd create a component to download the document (via
HTTP) and display it as a text area or image (not being a Delphi
programmer, I can't tell you the actual class names).
Of course, if you know you are going to have Imaging installed and
working, this may all be moot. It's just a suggestion.
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Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Design quality doesn't ensure success, but design failure can ensure
failure."
--Kent Beck
On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Thurman Pedigo wrote:
Don't think you are missing anything. What we need is someway to
link a
patient, ideally a visit, to a server that contains pdf files, so
that that
clicking on the link produces/retrieves the image(s).
You are correct it is a much less than needed for a PAC system. One
thought
I had is click a link that loads "path\yourimage1.pdf" and displays on
screen. However, it gets sort of complicated. Maybe it (path) could be
stored in a multiple.
I am not into templates enough to predict if this strategy can
work. I hope
to be there soon. I have a hunch it won't, or someone would have it
solved.
Just thinking operationally - not a programmer.
thurman
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