On Jun 5, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Darren Coolidge wrote: > Hello, > > Were looking into using the Medtronic LIFEPAK 12 system. What's > interesting about this device is that it has a serial interface to > retrieve data from the system. The PC it hooks up to must have a > LIFENET data management product (such as CODE-SAT) in order to view > incident data. I was wondering if Open-Vista has this capability...
Certainly, you can work with serial devices at a low level, just as if they were another special file, but perhaps you have in mind something like an HL7 interface. The VistA HL7 package was designed to work with serial devices even before TCP/IP. But you have another option, too: There are open source middleware products (some people on this list have been looking at Mirth), and you can always implement a serial interface from that, using TCP/IP at the VistA end. This would be an especially attractive option if the serial protocol had already been implemented, or if it was particularly difficult (or tedious) to handle in MUMPS. On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for the simplicity of not having to rely on middleware, too. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Metaphors be with you. _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
