Sure, Jim. I see the m2web developments happening now as a step in that direction. I still have everything.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VHA eyes open-source replacement for VistA > Chris, if you are interested in resurrecting this I could help you to get it on the web > pretty quickly. I imagine that the code for a Hypertext system based on HTML/HTTP could be > greatly simplified over what you had to write to make it work on VT100 terminals. > > Do you still have any of the code you wrote for this or design documents describing the > indexes and the algorithms for ranking by search patterns? > > Chris Richardson wrote: > >This was the strength of the Hypertext system I built around VistA years > >ago.>We had an entity file which helped to manage the documents and the > >entities that they were attached to. My basic model was used to build the > >library system of Belgium. I built the hypertext system for the US Public > >Health Service. Unfortunately, even though I delivered on time and had > >functionality that allowed for the assembly of "studies" which became > >collections of documents in the library. It allowed for the researcher to > >annotate documents (like writing in the margins) and the annotations become > >separate documents in the library with links to the document that spawned > >that annotation. This was a lot of text that was all cross-indexed in > >withing the document, but also between documents. There was a predicate > >logic engine I was working on which would help locate the use of phrases > >anywhere in the text and evaluate the value of the document to the search > >criteria by the propinquityof the words of the phrases within the body of > >text. The closer the words of the phrases in the text, the higher the score > >for the order of the documents. > > > > Unfortunately, the US Publich Health Service didn't continue with the > >project. It was a snap grant. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:34 PM > >Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VHA eyes open-source replacement for VistA > > > > > >> This is also one of the historical strengths of VMACS and it is something > >that I could > >> help bring to VistA with M2Web. > >> > >> > >> Bhaskar wrote: > >> >What's interesting about all this is that searches through unstructured > >> >text are increasingly common. That's what Google is all about. That's > >> >what Google appliances do inside corporate Intranets. That's what > >> >beagle does on file systems. Presumably, it would be a minimal amount > >> >of extra work to have VistA index progress notes and other text fields. > >> > Indeed, it's a near-trivial matter to also handle common spelling > >> >errors as well. > >> > > >> >-- Bhaskar > >> > > >> >VistA - a journey, not a destination > >> > > >> >On 06/20/2006 05:18 PM, Greg Woodhouse wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> --- Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > "The VA needs to replace VistA because VHA needs a system that users > >> >> > can > >> >> > easily search instead of sifting through VistA's free text, Kolodner > >> >> > said." > >> >> > > >> >> > Okay............. > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> is that really so strange a thing to say? After all, progress notes are > >> >> just unstructured text and they do represent a big chunk of the patient > >> >> record. Then again, the quote may be taken out of context. > >> >> > >> >> === > >> >> Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> > >> >> "Judge a man by his questions not his answers." > >> >> --Voltaire > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Hardhats-members mailing list > >> >Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > >> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------- > >> Jim Self > >> Systems Architect, Lead Developer > >> VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > >> (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > >> --------------------------------------- > >> M2Web Demonstration with VistA > >> (http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/) > >> (http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/m.cgi) > >> --------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Hardhats-members mailing list > >> Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Hardhats-members mailing list > >Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > --------------------------------------- > Jim Self > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > --------------------------------------- > M2Web Demonstration with VistA > (http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/) > (http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/m.cgi) > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! 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