Often patients come to a hospital on a referral basis. In such a case, they
bring (hard/soft) copies of reports of previous investigations (Lab,
Radiology, ...) and other treatment history. How can all this information be
captured into VistA?
Typically a patient comes in with a couple of lab
On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Richard Schilling wrote:
So we've got recognition, the technical and financial cases are
made for FOSS.
Yes.
We're shooting ourselves in the foot because of lack of
accessibility, obviously.
Richard Schilling
Something else to consider is that (in the
I would suggest scanning them in and associating that scan with either a visit
or a historical note. If you didn't sign up to test the HUI scanning
package, send me an email and I will send you the information you need to
give it a test drive. That will allow you to do what I have suggested.
Ismet --
Why would VistA need explicit Braille support for the CHUI when Braille
terminal support has been available in Linux for a long time? Here are
some URLS that may be helpful:
http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_blind.html
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Access-HOWTO-9.html
Anyone have contact info for Peter Groen?
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CPRS is already 508 compliant. As I understand it, all software from the US
government and all government web sites go through to assure 508 compliance.
There is a rigorous process that the VA web sites go through to assure it.
Just a few minutes ago I learned that Video DVDs can be 508
On 3/21/06, Jon Parshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bingo. I'd rather have a system where I know the tools I use work than
one where I hope they will work, or if they don't that I can make them
work. I also want a system that is developer friendly (clearly favoring
OS X over Windows) and
The majority of patients seen at our STD Clinic prefer not to give there true
name. Often times, they are recorded with only their initials and/or an alias.
I've been trying to figure out how to do this in VistA. I thought that if I
admit each patient as Doe,John (Doe,Jane) I would then be able
I think I have exhausted the List Manager document that is available on the VDL
website. Is there anything else available that would explain more advanced
stuff? Specifically, I would like to learn a bit more about the various
protocol types. This is in pursuit of developing a new STD specific
--- Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CPRS is already 508 compliant.
I honestly don't know whether it is (yet) or not. It may well be, but
in a sense, it's a legacy system that has to be (or had to be)
brought into compliance.
As I understand it, all software from
the US
The standard FileMan uses for duplicate entries is to enclose the name in
quotes. FileMan then asks if you are entering a new entry.
I don't understand how you're using the expression non-nominal data.
Could you give some examples?
Cameron.
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--- Cameron Schlehuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The standard FileMan uses for duplicate entries is to enclose the
name in
quotes. FileMan then asks if you are entering a new entry.
In general, you can do this (but I don't know enough about the
resistration process to know you it would work
--- Michael Zacharias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
by non-nominal I mean not that the patient is not identifiable in the
medical
record. For most of the patients in the STD clinic, they do not wish
to be
identified. They will either give an alias, or simply there
initials. In this
way,
With lock being the critical word there. No one should be locked into
anything that they don't wanna be.
Cheers,
-jon-
Remember Campers, SAFE, SANE, and CONSENSUAL!
Oh, wait. Wrong list...
;-)
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Michael,
You *can* register someone with just their initials, like this:
Select PATIENT NAME: H,TJ
ARE YOU ADDING 'H,TJ' AS A NEW PATIENT (THE 150764TH)? No// Y (Yes)
However, on my system this took 3 1/2 minutes to search through all of
the cross references looking for a match before
I understand. While it's important to be able to identify the patient's
record when they're in the clinic, it's also important that all the
identifying information on their clinic record not be readily usable to
associate their clinic record to their public identity outside the clinic.
In other
I'm forwarding this from openhealth. It seems to me that significant
factor in the adoption of VistA or any other open source solution
(sorry, I just can't bring myself to say FOSS) is interoperability. No
one wants to be locked in to a specific open sourc product or product
suite any more than
--- Holloway, Thomas (EDS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael,
You *can* register someone with just their initials, like this:
Select PATIENT NAME: H,TJ
ARE YOU ADDING 'H,TJ' AS A NEW PATIENT (THE 150764TH)? No// Y (Yes)
However, on my system this took 3 1/2 minutes to search
This is just an off-the-cuff suggestion, but you might create an STD
PATIENT file pointing to file 2 containing the correct demographic data
(and suitably protect it), rather like a shadow password file.
I think I'll leave it at. My concerns about trying to retrofit VistA
with new features like
On 3/21/06, Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been an interesting thread to say the least.
The fact that a group like the Disability Policy Consortium is concerned
is actually a great sign! It means that the open source applications
that the Disability Policy Consortium is
I can't help you with your question, but could you tell me (and the
list) a bit about what you have learned about the List Manager so far?
What potential uses do you see for it? Limitations? Features?
Kevin
On 3/22/06, Michael Zacharias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I have exhausted the
Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like this a year
ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too unweildy for me.
Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from
VNC/VNC server? Is the app running on the local computer instead of
the server?
Thanks
I have made GUI apps from time to time, and I would have no idea about
how to make them disability accessible, or how to test/debug them. I
suspect others might have similar problems.
Kevin
On 3/22/06, Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most modern GUI frameworks allow you to define
You can use any windows program without a mouse. Some things are
actually easier, like CTRL-V, which takes two steps with the mouse, but
many things aren't.
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
On 3/21/06, Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been an interesting thread to say the least.
--- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have made GUI apps from time to time, and I would have no idea
about
how to make them disability accessible, or how to test/debug them. I
suspect others might have similar problems.
Kevin
If you just use standard components, then you need
I did a quick search for X11 and accessibility, and found a couple of
interesting links:
http://www.kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=289PHPSESSID=fefca3ad58fec5c892e194068d78f77c
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qt4-accessibility.html
It does seem that there is some work going on here. I don't
The CodeWeavers thread (why do I keep thinking of a music group?)
actually raises a larger question. It may well be that there simply
isn't that much open software available in the health information
systems space, but there may be a lot more than we realize if we take
into account that different
Not sure what the openhealth posting was about, but this realm of open
source is old hat to us. We're maintaining OpenEMed.
OpenEMed www.openemed.net implements:
Master patient indexing: PIDS service
Clinical object repository: COAS
Lexicon Query Service: terminology
From Health IT Strategist:
DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments should better share
healthcare resources, the Government Accountability Office said. The
departments are increasing collaboration and sharing of services and
resources, including
Munit is a test framework for Mumps Unit testing.
It is in a patch that has not been released.
Here is a sample of what a unit test routine would look like.
;jli/fo-oak - demo code for a unit test routine ;9/25/03 15:44
;;
; makes it easy to run tests simply by
--- Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From Health IT Strategist:
DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments should better share
healthcare resources, the Government Accountability Office said.
I think I heard someone mention that once or
Yes you have, and they have been working on it for years. Go figure.
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On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:55, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like this a year
ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too unweildy for me.
Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from
VNC/VNC server?
Yes - its
Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like
this a year ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too
unweildy for me.
For some reason, if you google for something like Windows X
server XDeep doesn't show up for many pages; all the
On 3/22/06, Ruben Safir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from
VNC/VNC server?
Yes - its entirely different and VNC on Unix just another X instance
without all the capabilities of X.
In its simplest basic design, you have an X
On 3/22/06, Theodore Ruegsegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hope that made it more clear rather than less.
Ted
Yes that did help, I was confusing the server and client ends.
Thanks!
Kevin
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On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Reuben,
Thanks for the detailed response. You have provided valuable
information about how to configure and setup X. But in the end it
still seems that it is just a method for displaying output for
programs, and managing input from the
James G:
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I'm wondering from your $I if you might be running GTM/Linux, not Cache/XP.
I tried what you said, and it would not open the device.
Are you Cache/XP ? Maybe something else is wrong.
This code works:
VISTAS DEV=|PRN|
VISTAO DEV:(/datatype=TEXT)
VISTAF
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