RE: [Hardhats-members] Cache/Printer Definition

James G: Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm wondering from your $I if you might be running GTM/Linux, not Cache/XP. I tried what you said, and it would not open the device. Are you Cache/XP ? Maybe something else is wrong. This code works: VISTA>S DEV="|PRN|" VISTA>O DEV:(/datatype="TEXT") VI

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Reuben, Thanks for the detailed response. You have provided valuable information about how to configure and setup X. But in the end it still seems that it is just a method for displaying output for programs, and managing input from the us

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

> The issue then would seem to be one of bandwidth utilization. I'm not > sure which would use less--VNC which essentially sends an *image* of > the screen, or X which would send drawing instructions to the X > server. > Thanks for the kind words. In X space has no meaning. I can work with 5 c

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

On 3/22/06, Theodore Ruegsegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope that made it more clear rather than less. > > Ted > Yes that did help, I was confusing the server and client ends. Thanks! Kevin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a gr

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

On 3/22/06, Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > > Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from > > VNC/VNC server? > > Yes - its entirely different and VNC on Unix just another X instance > without all the capabilities of X. > > In its simplest basic design, yo

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like > this a year ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too > unweildy for me. For some reason, if you google for something like "Windows X server" XDeep doesn't show up for many pages; all t

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:55, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like this a year > ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too unweildy for me. > > Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from > VNC/VNC server? Yes - its ent

RE: [Hardhats-members] DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO

Yes you have, and they have been working on it for years. Go figure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:06 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] DOD, VA

Re: [Hardhats-members] DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO

--- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Health IT Strategist: > > DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO > The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments should better share > healthcare resources, the Government Accountability Office said. I think I heard someone mention that onc

Re: [Hardhats-members] MUnit

Munit is a test framework for Mumps Unit testing. It is in a patch that has not been released. Here is a sample of what a unit test routine would look like. ;jli/fo-oak - demo code for a unit test routine ;9/25/03 15:44 ;; ; makes it easy to run tests simply by runnin

[Hardhats-members] DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO

From Health IT Strategist: DOD, VA should pool resources, says GAO The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments should better share healthcare resources, the Government Accountability Office said. The departments are increasing collaboration and sharing of services and resources, including clinica

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: Re: Open Source Interoperability (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: OS at MedInfo 2007

Not sure what the openhealth posting was about, but this realm of open source is old hat to us. We're maintaining OpenEMed. OpenEMed www.openemed.net implements: Master patient indexing: PIDS service Clinical object repository: COAS Lexicon Query Service: terminology se

[Hardhats-members] Using what's available

The CodeWeavers thread (why do I keep thinking of a music group?) actually raises a larger question. It may well be that there simply isn't that much open software available in the health information systems space, but there may be a lot more than we realize if we take into account that different t

[Hardhats-members] X11 and accessibility - some links

I did a quick search for X11 and accessibility, and found a couple of interesting links: It does seem that there is some work going on here. I don

Re: [Hardhats-members] Designing for accessibility - custom components

--- Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made GUI apps from time to time, and I would have no idea > about > how to make them disability accessible, or how to test/debug them. I > suspect others might have similar problems. > > Kevin If you just use standard components, then you

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source and accessibility

You can use any windows program without a mouse. Some things are actually easier, like CTRL-V, which takes two steps with the mouse, but many things aren't. Kevin Toppenberg wrote: On 3/21/06, Richard Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has been an interesting thread to say the least.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

On 3/22/06, Michael Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [MZ] > One strategy that was proposed was to use STD as the last name. The name > string would then be STD,initials (ex STD,MPZ); or repeating the initlas twice > (ex MPZ,MPZ). What are thoughts on these strategies? > I think that STD,

Re: [Hardhats-members] Designing for accessibility - custom components

I have made GUI apps from time to time, and I would have no idea about how to make them disability accessible, or how to test/debug them. I suspect others might have similar problems. Kevin On 3/22/06, Greg Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most modern GUI frameworks allow you to define cu

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Ope n source and accessibility)

Excellent link. Thanks! I was looking for something like this a year ago, and could only find Cygwin, which was too unweildy for me. Help me understand this X stuff. Is this conceptually different from VNC/VNC server? Is the app running on the local computer instead of the server? Thanks agai

Re: [Hardhats-members] Learn More ListManager

I can't help you with your question, but could you tell me (and the list) a bit about what you have learned about the List Manager so far? What potential uses do you see for it? Limitations? Features? Kevin On 3/22/06, Michael Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I have exhausted th

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source and accessibility

On 3/21/06, Richard Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has been an interesting thread to say the least. > > The fact that a group like the Disability Policy Consortium is concerned > is actually a great sign! It means that the open source applications > that the Disability Policy Consorti

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

This is just an off-the-cuff suggestion, but you might create an STD PATIENT file pointing to file 2 containing the correct demographic data (and suitably protect it), rather like a shadow password file. I think I'll leave it at. My concerns about trying to retrofit VistA with new features like t

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

--- "Holloway, Thomas (EDS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > >You *can* register someone with just their initials, like this: > > Select PATIENT NAME: H,TJ >ARE YOU ADDING 'H,TJ' AS A NEW PATIENT (THE 150764TH)? No// Y (Yes) > > However, on my system this took 3 1/2 minutes t

[Hardhats-members] Fwd: Re: Open Source Interoperability (was) Re: [openhealth] Re: OS at MedInfo 2007

I'm forwarding this from openhealth. It seems to me that significant factor in the adoption of VistA or any other open source solution (sorry, I just can't bring myself to say FOSS) is interoperability. No one wants to be locked in to a specific open sourc product or product suite any more than the

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

I understand. While it's important to be able to identify the patient's record when they're in the clinic, it's also important that all the identifying information on their clinic record not be readily usable to associate their clinic record to their public identity outside the clinic. In other wo

[Hardhats-members] Designing for accessibility - custom components

Most modern GUI frameworks allow you to define custom components, but you need to be careful. A screen reader that can deal correctly with standard components may not be able to "see" components you design yourself. There is a way out, though: Aqua, Swing and other frameworks provide accessibility

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

Michael, You *can* register someone with just their initials, like this: Select PATIENT NAME: H,TJ ARE YOU ADDING 'H,TJ' AS A NEW PATIENT (THE 150764TH)? No// Y (Yes) However, on my system this took 3 1/2 minutes to search through all of the cross references looking for a match before it

RE: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Open source and accessibility)

> > With "lock" being the critical word there. No one should be locked into > > anything that they don't wanna be. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -jon- > > Remember Campers, SAFE, SANE, and CONSENSUAL! > > Oh, wait. Wrong list... ;-) -jon- --- Th

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

--- Michael Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > by non-nominal I mean not that the patient is not identifiable in the > medical > record. For most of the patients in the STD clinic, they do not wish > to be > identified. They will either give an alias, or simply there > initials. In this >

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

--- Cameron Schlehuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The standard FileMan uses for "duplicate" entries is to enclose the > name in > quotes. FileMan then asks if you are entering a new entry. In general, you can do this (but I don't know enough about the resistration process to know you it would

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

by non-nominal I mean not that the patient is not identifiable in the medical record. For most of the patients in the STD clinic, they do not wish to be identified. They will either give an alias, or simply there initials. In this way, their medical record is not attached directly to them. Mich

RE: [Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

The standard FileMan uses for "duplicate" entries is to enclose the name in quotes. FileMan then asks if you are entering a new entry. I don't understand how you're using the expression "non-nominal data". Could you give some examples? Cameron. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

--- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPRS is already 508 compliant. I honestly don't know whether it is (yet) or not. It may well be, but in a sense, it's a "legacy" system that has to be (or had to be) brought into compliance. > As I understand it, all software from > the US > g

[Hardhats-members] Learn More ListManager

I think I have exhausted the List Manager document that is available on the VDL website. Is there anything else available that would explain more advanced stuff? Specifically, I would like to learn a bit more about the various protocol types. This is in pursuit of developing a new STD specific m

[Hardhats-members] Non-Nominal Data

The majority of patients seen at our STD Clinic prefer not to give there true name. Often times, they are recorded with only their initials and/or an alias. I've been trying to figure out how to do this in VistA. I thought that if I admit each patient as Doe,John (Doe,Jane) I would then be able

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mac,m Linux, CrossOver and stuff (was: Open source and accessibility)

On 3/21/06, Jon Parshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Bingo. I'd rather have a system where I know the tools I use work than > > one where I hope they will work, or if they don't that I can make them > > work. I also want a system that is developer friendly (clearly favoring > > OS X over Win

Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

CPRS is already 508 compliant. As I understand it, all software from the US government and all government web sites go through to assure 508 compliance. There is a rigorous process that the VA web sites go through to assure it. Just a few minutes ago I learned that Video DVDs can be 508 comp

Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

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Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

Ismet -- Why would VistA need explicit Braille support for the CHUI when Braille terminal support has been available in Linux for a long time? Here are some URLS that may be helpful: http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_blind.html http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Access-HOWTO-9.html http://mielke.cc/brltty

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source and accessibility

On Mar 22, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: Something else to consider is that (in the U.S. at least) accessibility isn't just the right thing to do, it's the law. See http://www.section508.gov/ Another useful link is http://www.access-board.gov/ === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PR

Re: [Hardhats-members] Adding external test results to VistA

I would suggest scanning them in and associating that scan with either a visit or a historical note. If you didn't sign up to test the HUI scanning package, send me an email and I will send you the information you need to give it a test drive. That will allow you to do what I have suggested.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source and accessibility

On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Richard Schilling wrote: So we've got recognition, the technical and financial cases are made for FOSS. Yes. We're shooting ourselves in the foot because of lack of accessibility, obviously. Richard Schilling Something else to consider is that (in the U.S

[Hardhats-members] Adding external test results to VistA

Often patients come to a hospital on a referral basis. In such a case, they bring (hard/soft) copies of reports of previous investigations (Lab, Radiology, ...) and other treatment history. How can all this information be captured into VistA? Typically a patient comes in with a couple of lab tests