That offers some hope to keep VistA alive. Thanks Nancy.
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From: Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 1, 2004 3:41 pm Subject: RE: To GUI or not to GUI? (was)RE: [Hardhats-members] How to accessScreenMan > Because of my work on the pedi project, I have been hearing about> thingsthat may be helpful here and should soon have an opportunity
> to ask the
> VistA-Office project manager if what I am about to tell you is
> correct. The
> CCR or Core Clinical Record (I think) is virtually certain to be a
> featureand should be a standard by the time VistA-Office is
> released. It is
> specifically designed to be something that can be exported and sent
> elsewhere, using predefined data elements that will need to be
> populated by
> the contents of the medical record and will likely use XML fields
> for each
> of those data elements as at least one way for moving the record
> from place
> to place. I think I heard there are something in the neighborhood
> of 40+
> elements and subelements (if that is the term) beyond that, or
> whatever they
> are called, and is quite comprehensive, even including
> immunizations as well
> as the usual history family history, social history, meds, problem
> list,etc. I also fully expect that VistA from the VA will have the
> same thing
> shortly after the standard is agreed upon and makes it through the
> ballotingprocess.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill
> Walton
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: To GUI or not to GUI? (was)RE: [Hardhats-members] How to
> accessScreenMan
>
>
> A. Forrey wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Bill Walton wrote:
> >
> > > Gordon Moreshead wrote:
> > >
> > >> There are concepts implemented within RPMS
> > >> PCC that do allow "foreign data" to be stored
> > >> into the record and/or extracted out to another
> > >> system. These, or similar, concepts could fairly
> > >> readily be implemented within VistA.
> > >
> > > Could you say more about this? In my opinion,
> > > the ability to export a patient's medical record in
> > > electronic format is a "must have" for VistA to be
> > > considered a viable system for use by community-
> > > based physicians.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if this capability is something
> > > that the VistA Office EHR project is working on?
> >
> > The issue here, which has been in limbo for ten years,
> > is a common cnvention for the structure of the EHR.
>
> /snip/
>
> Thanks. I think I understand the issues. But, at least according
> to their
> web site, the HL7 CDA was approved as an ANSI standard in 2000.
> It's true
> that the CDA isn't inclusive of everything that needs to be in an
> EMR. It's
> also obvious that whatever emerges as "the" EMR definition will
> includewhat's in today's CDA. But perhaps I should have asked the
> questiondifferently. So I'll ask again.
>
> Does anyone know if *any* export capability is something that the
> VistAOffice EHR project is working on?
>
> But you're retitling of this thread raises a new question, at
> least for me.
> What do you see my question having to do with GUI's?
>
> Thanks again,
> Bill
>
>
>
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