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  VistA GUI Registration Status Improved!
VistA Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @ 03:30 PM
from the VistA dept.
For you VA VistA fans, here is the status of GUI-registration which has recently changed with tmg-cprs. In case you didn't know, patient registration up until recently was text-based and somewhat annoying in an otherwise good system:

  • tmg-cprs: works now and so far works very well in clinical situations. Point-click client installer available now and should work out of the box as of Astronaut WorldVistA server Beta 6 installer. It is not browser-based so client deployment is not as simple as browser-based. The non-browser based client is both an advantage and disadvantage for deployment reasons. Local IT staff and management likes that it is not browser-based. It does not require multiple logins or application switching. Works well under pressured situations. Editing demographic mistakes is easy.

  • m2web: Has it, it is browser-based, but it is somewhat out of date and I could not get it to work due to dojo issues. Jim Self may be refreshing this starting in July. I will include it in a future Astronaut install when it is working. Advantages are that it is lightweight and relatively un-complicated.

  • VistA Outreach: Browser-based. Has registration but I was unable to get it to install. Others appear to have difficulty installing it as well. It is not in Astronaut because of this. Appears to be heavyweight on the server side, bulky install.

  • Text based: it works but in clinical settings the staff doesn't like it much and under pressured situations mistakes like a misspelled name is a time-consuming pain to edit. Installs with Astronaut both server and client. Very lightweight and more or less guaranteed to work. Digg this article



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    Please use real links, not javascript
    by 500kb on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 05:58 PM

    Please post real links in the summary -- do not use javascript by itself. 1) search engines can't / don't / won't follow the javascript link, so you're basically erasing that page from Google and co 2) ADA accessibility guidelines should be followed even here 3) is "digg this" really the phrase you want associated with that link? There must be some semantically relevant term or phrase that would be preferable.

    These are interesting and relevant posts, give them the visibility they deserve and don't bury them


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    Re: VistA GUI Registration Status Improved!
    by Alex Caldwell on Friday June 12, 2009 @ 09:33 PM
    Do you have any links to any of the stuff you mention? Your message seems to be directed to VISTA insiders, but LinuxMedNews seems to be more for general audience. But we might like to learn more, but need links. I looked on the WorldVista site and can't find anything about Astronaut. What is it? Thanks
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