Re: [Hardhats-members] House VA Committee is recommending a $400 million cut

2005-03-14 Thread chuck5566
So, not only is the VA's effort to replace their own, WORKING, home-grown software with COTS (Commercial, Off The Shelf, software), not working, it's going to cost them. . . "The VA is not in the software business." (VHA IT's mantra a few years back.) On Mar 14, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Nancy Ant

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: Need help programmatically signing a p rogress note

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Kirk, Thank you so much. I was focusing on EDSIG^TIURS. I hadn't had a chance to trance through it yet. I'm glad you saved me the time, because ES^TIURS is exactly what I needed. Thanks! Kevin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This will autosign a note. > ES ;SIGNS THE NOT FOXK >

Re: [Hardhats-members] WorldVistA wikki change requests

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
--- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We did put a link on the worldvista.org > sitemaybe needs to be more > obvious. > > Joseph Ahhh, so you did. I just found it. Sorry. Kevin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business -

[Hardhats-members] Teamspeak and Networks and AMIA and reporters

2005-03-14 Thread Nancy Anthracite
The word must have gotten out to the NEMUG members as I just had a conversation with Liz who works for Partners. She raises parakeets, so I will have to introduce her to Tom Ackerman so she can learn how to train them. ;-) Parakeets transmit very well over TeamSpeak. I think Liz will be joini

RE: [Hardhats-members] House VA Committee is recommending a $400 million cut

2005-03-14 Thread Francis . Gilbert
As I read the article, the cut in funds is a rebuke for the problems at Bay Pines. Rather than fix the problems of outsourcing and management, the response is to reduce the budget. "You keep getting sick, so we're going to stop providing these immunizations,"  or logic of that sort. I once s

Re: [Hardhats-members] House VA Committee is recommending a $400 million cut

2005-03-14 Thread Ron Ponto
 Now I understand why the IT department at smaller VA hospitals are wondering about their budgets. I work as the Lab Information Manager at a local VA hospital and have already had problems requesting new IT equipment to replace older models. How can one section of the VA be forcing new produ

RE: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I fully agree. When I get my system going for batch sign and print, I'll post the code. Kevin --- Thurman Pedigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will answer this as a physician general response. > Hospital notes are > different. All are require signature. Reading (and > signing) a clinic note

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: Need help programmatically signing a p rogress note

2005-03-14 Thread Kirk . Fox
This will autosign a note. ES ;SIGNS THE NOT FOXK S TIUES=1_U_$P($G(^VA(200,+DUZ,20)),U,2,3) D ES^TIURS(R,TIUES) W "ES "_R K TIUES Q DUZ=THE SIGNER R=IEN OF NOTE IN FILE 8925 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Nancy -- Open Office has the same annoying auto correction feature, and it is just as easy to turn it off there as well. -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:09 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > Got to Tools- Auto Correct - Exceptions - and put in Don't correct: EHR > > or better yet ... > > Us

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Got to Tools- Auto Correct - Exceptions - and put in Don't correct: EHR or better yet ... Use Open Office ;-) On Monday 14 March 2005 12:20 pm, Thurman Pedigo wrote: > I will answer this as a physician general response. Hospital notes are > different. All are require signature. Reading (and si

RE: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
In Word, under Tools, select AutoCorrect Options, under Replace type EHR (it will show Her as the replacement) then select Delete. No more autocorrect of EHR to HER. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thurman Pedigo Sent: Monday, March 14, 20

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Greg Kreis
Thurman Pedigo wrote: P.S.: How many of you notice MSWord likes to convert EHR to HER? Maybe EHR is a bad acronym. I submit that Word is out of control.  The correction features I am sure sounded good on paper, but are so annoying that I turn them off.  Better to have some sophisticated

RE: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Thurman Pedigo
I will answer this as a physician general response. Hospital notes are different. All are require signature. Reading (and signing) a clinic note almost doubles the work. Depositions and court testimony I have seen seem to have no bearing on whether or not the note is signed - even when there are t

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Joseph, We have several doctors that are near retirement. They have not had to interact with a computer, and they don't plan to start. We currently are a paper chart based office. My VistA is primarily a place to archive progress notes -- though I hope to make a neat program available to others

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Need help programmatically signing a progress note

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
George, You are right. What I should have said is that list manager is launched with the name of a screenman routine/launch point/etc. Thus a Screenman page is launched. Sorry. Kevin --- George Timson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To refer to the ^VALM* routines as "ScreenMan" > creates confu

[Hardhats-members] House VA Committee is recommending a $400 million cut

2005-03-14 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Committee calls for VA tech cut The House Veterans Affairs Committee is recommending a $400 million cut in the VA's proposed IT budget for 2006. http://www.fcw.com/article88249 -- Nancy Anthracite --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product

[Hardhats-members] Linux Medical News Stuff.

2005-03-14 Thread Ignacio Valdes
Okay, too many years as a software engineer has not made me very good at sales so I'm somewhat embarassed to announce this. Apologies in advance if this is inappropriate or spam or whatever, here it comes: You can FINALLY buy cheesy Linux Medical News stuff (shirts, hats, buttons, mugs, etc.) a

Re: [Hardhats-members] Memorial service for Fil Beza

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Richardson
It was a lovely service and a number of Fil's former employees were in attendance, Sally Najera, Rosila Milward, and Steven Hill. They all worked for Fil when he was the IRM director at Martinez for the VA. Fil had been a supporter of WorldVistA and the whole of the VistA community. Fil authored