Christoph:
I can appreciate your difficulty in both having to understand the MUMPS
data management environment as well as the architecture (and its
rationale) of VistA. AT UW we have been slowing evolving an "Introduction
to VistA" to use for education of health informatics students in both the
Conceptual Content as well as the implementation environment for
Electronic Health Records. It takes both to understand the significance of
VistA and what to do with it and may be gained at several levels of
understanding. If you are interested, I can send you the working documents
to see if they are helpful to you. They are still incomplete and
complement a lot of technical documentation from both the VA and the World
VistA website. Just let me know and I can send them as e-mail attachments.
Arden W. Forrey PhD
Dept of Restorative Dentistry
University of Washington School of Dentistry
206-616-1875 Phone
206-543-7783 FAX
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Christoph Guenther wrote:
Hi All:
I am a total newcomer to VistA and Mumps and I am not sure whether this is
the right forum to ask my question, but nevertheless...
I have recently started to download and install VistA on a Windows XP machine
and got stuck somewhere and joined this mailing list to get some advice on
how to get unstuck (which I have received, thank you). What bugs me with the
installation is that I am just blindly following the installation procedure
without actually knowing what is going on. I have been following the various
threads in this list for a while and was wondering whether you guys can give
me some advice on what the best resources are to get my head around what is
going on inside of VistA? Obviously, I know about the WorldVista and HardHats
websites.
I am not at all averse to learning Mumps if that is the best way to proceed.
I tried to find some books online on the subject but every book I saw seemed
very old. What recommendations can anyone give me about resources that will
help me get up to speed on VistA and/or Mumps. I have programmed before - in
Fortran (a long time ago), in C, and in Perl. I have also dabbled in C++ and
Java.
Of course, any advice is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Christoph
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