Ken Rubin wrote:
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> The GUI is considered by many to be pushing
> state-of-the-art.
>
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> Conversely, there are some issues and current
> activities:
>
> -VistA is based on an aging application
> infrastructure. Efforts are underway within VHA to
> determine the next generation architecture and migrate
> towards it. The "plumbing" behind the GUI has
> significant maintenance issues, and VHA is facing
> continuing challenges in this area.
>
> -To my knowledge, any reengineering effort relating to
> VistA will have minimal GUI impacts. We have an
> interface well liked and accepted, so the "end user"
> impact of the reengineering would be largely
> unnoticable.
>
What kind of GUI is this? VT220, PC ActiveX controls, Web/HTML?
While this may seem a really stupid question, the issue of desktop platform
support always comes up. And some of us have been really successful in
getting the call to web delivery to be an expected thing from the user
perspective.
Even having two GUI's, one a full capability GUI running on the workstation
and the other being a more limited GUI running on HTML would be acceptable.
But having no web launching at all would be the kiss of death now, whereas 2-5
years ago, it wouldn't have been.
