I'm not so sure. Certainly, there are difficulties involved in
building efficient interfaces between VistA and non-MUMPS based
products, but it can be done with a little creativity. I've written
software to efficiently publish file/table updates using HL7
messaging. More intricate mechanisms may require more work, but there
is a substantial body of theory in the area distributed programming,
and good middleware products (including open source options such as
JBoss and Tomcat.)
I think it's an idea worth exploring.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many
discoveries would not have been made."
-- Albert Einstein
On Sep 11, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Fred,
I think what you are saying is good in theory, but to me it seems
impractical. One the one hand you have VistA, with ongoing revisions
to the software (it seems there is a new CPRS every month or so) by a
entity that is not going to alter it's actions to mesh with open
source. And on the other hand you have the ClearHealth package that
is likely designed to overlap what CPRS does etc.
I just went to the ClearHealth and ran the Demo. It seems mostly like
a practice management system (i.e. calendars, encounters, billing),
but I found it hard to find the "chart", i.e. progress notes etc.
So perhaps I don't have anything helpful to add here. I just hated
that you weren't getting many answers. I just seems that it would be
a difficult marriage.
Sorry,
Kevin
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