RE: [Talk] Reading document with BWS

[Maurice Bastarache]

Thanks for this information!   From: Cris Clausing (SBCnd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:41 PM To: Talk@BOSTONWORKSTATION.COM Subject: RE: [Talk] Reading document with BWS   Hi Maurice !               I usually see you on the PIM user’s group ( for Kris, in case she doesn’t have it http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pim_users/  ).               We are MAGIC 5.4.             ( The following is much abbreviated explanation.)               On the MEDITECH side we are; setting up printer devices that use the HPLASERIIII model (PCL-5); and print (our Nursing Documentation, LABs, Attestations, MARs) to those printers.  NOTE:  Those ‘printers’ are directed to a server running the Interbit Data custom program.  Each ‘printer’ has a corresponding ‘template’ used to parse the ‘indexing elements’ needed by the McKesson COLD agent(s).             The Interbit Data custom program and templates convert the *.prn / PCL file to a PostScript document with the needed ‘indexing elements’ imbedded in the PostScript file.  There is an intermediate step where the *.prn / PCL file is converted to PDF prior to being converted to PostScipt.                         We ‘trigger’ the MEDITECH feeds in two different ways;  a)       LABs and Attestations are ‘scheduled’ via MIS.JOBs as are a couple of NPR RW reports that ‘print’ the ‘source’ files for my BWS script b)       the BWS script which loops through the ‘source’ file(s) and ‘prints’ the Nursing Documentation to the appropriate MEDITECH device/printer   Before deciding on this solution, we looked at using custom NPR RW reports, with imbedded %% START and %%PAGE and %% END etc… values.  HOWEVER, MEDITECH ‘standard’ documents and reports assembled via ‘format dictionaries’ are almost (if not) impossible to replicate using the NPR RW. AND, MEDITECH was not interested in developing a PostScript device driver for us.   What I REALLY like about this solution is that; 1)       the COLD fed documents (with some fonts and graphic exceptions) end up looking very much like the ‘paper documents’ 2)       changes to the documents are done via the format dictionaries ( NOT in a custom NPR RW report)     Good Luck! Cris     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maurice Bastarache Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:31 AM To: Talk@BOSTONWORKSTATION.COM Subject: RE: [Talk] Reading document with BWS   Cris,   Are you a Magic or CS Meditech site?  Also, when these reports are converted to PostScript files does this also include adding header and footer information so they are ready for COLD processing?  Or are there additional steps?  I would be very interested in this.  We have both Meditech and McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder.  Thanks.   Maurice Bastarache Greenwich Hospital   From: Cris Clausing (SBCnd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:50 AM To: Talk@BOSTONWORKSTATION.COM Subject: RE: [Talk] Reading document with BWS   Kris,             We are, very shortly going live, with scripting Nursing Documentation INTO the McKesson Horizon Patient Folder from MEDITECH ‘print jobs’.             Interbit Data has done some custom programming for us, where they convert our MEDITECH *.prn / PCL-5e files to PostScript via an intermediate step using Adobe Distiller to create a PDF file.             Maybe they can do the reverse ….convert a PDF to text…?    Just a thought.             They are   www.interbitdata.com .   Good Luck! Cris               -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conrads, Kristine Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:30 AM To: Talk@BOSTONWORKSTATION.COM Subject: [Talk] Reading document with BWS   Does anyone know if it is possible to read data from a document?  We have a system (McKesson Horizon Patient Folder) that will only output in PDF or TIF, not regular text file.  We would like to be able to scan for certain data in a specific location and use that data for another process.  Has anyone had any success with this or something similar?   Thanks for any help! Kris Conrads Sr. Systems Analyst Information Systems Kadlec Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] (509) 946-4611 ext. 4573     ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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