Thanks to Steven Tomlinson for pointing this out - sounds exciting! http://www.pacifichui.org/media/press_releases/JanusNewsRelease_final.pdf
Tim C -----Original Message----- From: Tim Churches [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:50 AM To: openhealth-list @ minoru-development . com Subject: Dynamic data collection forms in VistA? (was RE: Vista on the BBC News Web-site) Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Yes, I have one question. Is it possible to link OIO to VistA in some way. Jim Self wrote: > My approach at this point is to take basic web oriented tools from VMACS and combine them > with Vista installation on GT.M and Linux with Apache. Then I can expose VistA data and > design to the web making it easier for me and others to understand, to potentially reverse > engineer, and, of course, that also opens possibilities for re-engineering VistA > applications for the web. Hmmm...thinks...one of the features of MUMPS (or rather, M) is its highly flexible and dynamic data storage and retrieval architecture, closely allied to a dynamically interpreted language. Unlike OO-languages and SQL, there is little "impedance mismatch" between the M language and the M storage system. Given that, I wonder if it would be possible to create an Epi-Info/OIO-style facility for Vista, written in M, with a Web interface, which permits end users to easily create and modify data collection forms which are "attached" to different parts of the (very extensive) VistA data model? It might be easier to handle issues such as table schema updates with M than it is to handle with SQL data stores. So, rather than link OIO to VistA, it might be possible to re-implement aspects of OIO as part of VistA (and/or other M-based ssytems). That way, end-user data forms and data would be stored with all the other VistA data, and would benefit from being backed-up in the same way, and could be supported by the same infrastructure as the rest of VistA. Obviously such a project would only be of interest to VistA or other sites running M-based systems, but as we have heard, there are a surprising number of these - 140 hospitals in the US VA system alone. That's a fairly large ready-made user base for such a facility, and as Nandalal notes, it would be sure to be popular. Thoughts? -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0 -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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