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Hello Daniel, In my experience, whenever anyone from HCA has been asked to share an NPR, the standard answer is "HCA doesn't share NPR definitions". No other reason given. That being said, the reasons you give shouldn't be an issue for some/many of the NPR writers here. HCA Meditech still utilizes standard MAGIC syntax, so the MAGIC NPR Viewer application can open the NPRs that are produced from an HCA site, if the report should error out on an upload into the user's HCIS (or if they were C/S). I have converted a few MAGIC NPRs to C/S, and while it's not for the faint of heart, it is quite doable. Conversion from HCA MAGIC should be equally as doable, even if there are "custom indexes" being used. If one couldn't be made to work, I could see where someone may be asking the originator of the NPR for assistance or pointers, but what's wrong with that? If it isn't available, it isn't available. The point of the post was that HCA is not known for their sharing of NPR definitions, not issues of converting those NPRs. I stand by my opinion, HCA should be more forthcoming in sharing NPR definitions. Especially given that there is usually no hesitation from the community in providing assistance when HCA people ask for it. Perhaps I am jaded, having worked for HCA long ago and far away, perhaps I am just seeing them as being petty. /shrug Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Senior Applications Analyst - Advanced Report Writer General Financials Support CHRISTUS Information Management Tel: 361.881.3408 Fax: 361.888.6117 Mob: 361.549.8456 AIM: a1d13 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone has "Made your day", send them a Spirit Buck! -----Original Message----- From: Davis Daniel - Southern Hills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lawrence, Mitchell; Hooper Deborah; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] NPR assistance I am not aware of HCA being "stingy" about sharing their NPR reports. There are some issues you would want to be aware of: First, HCA has a custom version of Meditech. And, while we are moving closer to the main stream version, we aren't there yet. So, you could get something that works great for an HCA facility, but points to some index or data that doesn't exist in your environment. Second, most NPR reports have not been built by the PCM at the facility level. They are something that someone at a much higher level has designed. So, some of the people participating on this list would not be able to answer questions regarding how to "make it work" once you get it and it doesn't work like you thought. That's just a couple of reasons why you might not see tons of HCA reports floating about. Daniel Davis, RN <snip - MDL> _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
