Re: [Hardhats-members] VOE Beta requirements

2005-09-21 Thread smcphelan
From your statement, I assume that you have thoroughly tested all VistA options in the 100+ different VistA modules to verify that VistA works fine without them. - Original Message - From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Hardhats-members] I'm going to just say this...

2005-09-15 Thread smcphelan
Perhaps it is time for some people in the government to make changes. There should be a web site where anyone can download any finished software product developed by any federal agency. All agencies should be required to put that software on the web site. Of course, there needs to be an

Re: [Hardhats-members] There is a new FOIA CACHE.dat release as of Aug. 25

2005-08-29 Thread smcphelan
ways to do this. Lloyd - Original Message - From: smcphelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] There is a new FOIA CACHE.dat release as of Aug. 25 What does your perl command do

Re: [Hardhats-members] There is a new FOIA CACHE.dat release as of Aug. 25

2005-08-28 Thread smcphelan
What does your perl command do that is different from: S %DIRECTORY=appropriate value D STRIPCR^ZOSVGUX(%DIRECTORY) - Original Message - From: Lloyd Milligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 8:37 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Binary Read/Writes

2005-08-26 Thread smcphelan
This why the Kernel allowed the passing a some generic flags, like W,A,R,etc. This way the application is device and M independent. Obviously, the Kernel has not generalized all parameters that can be used in all M implementations. This is an area for enhancement to the Kernel device utilities.

Re: [Hardhats-members] == Is there a REAL MUMPS tutorial in theweb? ==

2005-08-25 Thread smcphelan
I learned M years ago. I knew Fortran and Basic. I found that 80+% of the commands and functions in M had equivalents in M. The M commands and functions usually had more features than the equivalent Basic ones. But it helped me to think in those terms, like Basic has a Print command and M has

Re: [Hardhats-members] All about programming

2005-08-25 Thread smcphelan
Regarding several recent responses to this thread: 1. Can you explain why memory references are very slow but accessing global caches (which is stored in memory) is very fast? Aren't they both references to memory? 2. New programmers should stay away from indirection. You can easily get into

Re: [Hardhats-members] Binary Read/Writes

2005-08-25 Thread smcphelan
Would it have something to do with flushing the buffers? - Original Message - From: Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Binary Read/Writes I don't really understand this.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Rules for the List

2005-08-21 Thread smcphelan
I got the same results as Kevin, I could not get to the page. - Original Message - From: Thurman Pedigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 2:29 PM Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Rules for the List I checked - short, succinct,

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Is $$GTF~%ZISH() binary friendly?

2005-08-21 Thread smcphelan
Non-printable ASCII characters in either the data or the global subscripts can and has caused problem depending upon the M implementation and the vehicle you are using to access the M account. If your data is on a global node that only your specific application will touch, then you may get by

Re: [Hardhats-members] more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread smcphelan
Here, here. Chris also stated this. ANSI standard M is not really designed to handle binary data. This is one reason Intersystems added extensions (if you wish to call it that). But then you are bound to a specific M vendor's implementation, in this case, Cache. If you are going to stay

Re: [Hardhats-members] Rules for the List

2005-08-21 Thread smcphelan
Is your browser encoding the _ in mailing_list? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson On Aug 21, 2005, at 4:11 AM, smcphelan wrote: I got the same results as Kevin, I could not get

Re: [Hardhats-members] Rules for the List

2005-08-21 Thread smcphelan
8. DO NOT spam the list with your advertising message. You will be banned from the list if you do so. If a company has a position open for a VistA knowledgeable person, is placing a job announcement considered SPAM? 12. Do not forward copyrighted material or information you do not have

Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features

2005-08-20 Thread smcphelan
For this esoteric message, is left-to-right really easier for all people, e.g., Israelis or anyone else who native language is to read right to left? M was developed in the US so it is natural that that language adopted a Western perspective. - Original Message - From: Holloway, Thomas

Re: [Hardhats-members] Lab Orders using CPRS

2005-08-20 Thread smcphelan
What is the difference between the ONE TIME you entered into the file and the ONCE entry that already existed? - Original Message - From: Madhavi Bagepalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features

2005-08-16 Thread smcphelan
I believe that is so strictly within in confines of the M ANSI standard. However, for the newbies, all M implementations I am familiar with allow for what they call numeric collation in the globals. So when you $O() through an array with numeric subscripts, those will collate prior to the

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: VistA Imaging FDA...

2005-08-12 Thread smcphelan
Medical images do have an additional area of security with which other applications may not be concerned. One has to evaluate the risk if one does not ensure somehow that an image is never modified or replaced. Again this gets back to the legal aspect of the medical record. Every PACS vendor I

Re: [Hardhats-members] Estimating project cost and schedule

2005-08-11 Thread smcphelan
How do you accomplish this and still keep goodwill with the customer? 4. It's better to take MORE time in the design stage to get it right, then having to go back and re-engineer the entire product. 5. All aspects of the design and code have to be traced to requirements, if it isn't in a

Re: [Hardhats-members] On portability

2005-07-30 Thread smcphelan
Here, here - well stated. One thing that needs repeating is that one of VistA's initial design specifications (and one that still exists) is that ALL application code be implementation and platform independent. M vendors and OS vendors may not prefer that the VA have been so insistent on this

Re: [Hardhats-members] VISTA-OFFICE EHR VENDOR TEST

2005-07-30 Thread smcphelan
Has any VA representatives without conflicts of interests taken the test to certify that the test has no implicit biases and that the test does accurately measure what it is intended to do? - Original Message - From: Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Hardhats-members] VISTA-OFFICE EHR VENDOR TEST

2005-07-30 Thread smcphelan
I do plan on taking the test. I have not talked to anyone else at DSS, but I assume DSS will be participating. But I could not publicly state that without first checking with the president of the company. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Hardhats-members] Who is ready to install VistA *today*?

2005-07-22 Thread smcphelan
You can refer them to the VSA and WorldVistA web sites. The VSA web site already has a list of companies ready to assist. http://www.vistasoftware.org/ - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hardhats Sourceforge hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent:

Re: [Hardhats-members] JOB OPPORTUNITY

2005-07-22 Thread smcphelan
I forgot to add that we are looking for experienced VistA adpacs also. - Original Message - From: steven mcphelan To: hardhats Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] JOB OPPORTUNITY Document Storage Systems, Inc is looking for

Re: [Hardhats-members] ^%ZIS question

2005-07-19 Thread smcphelan
I do not know who set up the HFS device(s) on the FOIA. I vaguely remember a patch quite awhile ago to OR (I think) that provided instructions for all VAMCs to create a HFS device. So a HFS device is standardized in the VA. When you use Fileman to do a lookup on the device file, the input value

Re: [Hardhats-members] VPE supported in Cache?

2005-06-27 Thread smcphelan
You should also upgrade to the latest version. On Thursday 23 June 2005 01:41 pm, Dan wrote: Anyone know if VPE supports Cache? We've converted DSM accounts to Cache-VMS and after I do anything VPE (..vgl, ..vedd, ..vrr, etc.) I get a NOLINE error. Running VPE v10 VPE Error Trap:

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA global variable partitioning

2005-06-26 Thread smcphelan
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA global variable partitioning smcphelan wrote: Having things spread across multiple partitions (or namespaces or volume sets or whatever) does increase the management complexity of the system. However routines

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to save a nake reference?

2005-06-21 Thread smcphelan
$$LGR^%ZOSV - Original Message - From: Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] How to save a nake reference? I believe there's an entry point in %ZOSV to call the platform

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA global variable partitioning

2005-06-21 Thread smcphelan
The partitioning of the globals is or is not needed. For a single doctor's office with 2-5 users, it probably does not make sense. For a serious implementation at a sizeable medical center (or an outpatient clinic with many providers) it makes absolutely perfect sense. If you look at the larger

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record?

2005-06-17 Thread smcphelan
What Nancy is requesting is a Release of Information functionality. There is no HIPAA compliant electronic function within the FOIA VistA. However, Document Storage Systems, Inc does have an add-on module to VistA to provide this functionality. This is what the VA has purchased to meet its ROI

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-17 Thread smcphelan
The only thing that make sense to me is that you do not have read/write privileges to those other directories. All %ZISH is doing is issuing an OPEN command. Perhaps there is some peculiarities of the OPEN command syntax within GT.M that %ZISH is not honoring. But I do not believe that is the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record?

2005-06-17 Thread smcphelan
:42 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record? Are you saying that VistA is not HIPAA compliant without a commercial add-on? Kevin --- smcphelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Nancy is requesting is a Release of Information functionality

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record?

2005-06-17 Thread smcphelan
is it now presumably in the public domain or is it proprietary? On Friday 17 June 2005 08:11 am, smcphelan wrote: What Nancy is requesting is a Release of Information functionality. There is no HIPAA compliant electronic function within the FOIA VistA. However, Document Storage Systems, Inc

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-02 Thread smcphelan
DSM is a dead implementation of M as Intersystems has no plans for any further upgrades. Cache does have that ability. - Original Message - From: Gregory Woodhouse To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:48 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Hardhats-members] Custom Fileman date output formatting.

2005-05-18 Thread smcphelan
As Rick Marshall knows, I will challenge what is said in a publicforum especially one where many recipient's have little to noexperience withVistA and who do not really know who the people are who areresponding.Saying that, Kevin started this thread with thecomment: " I may havejustreinvented the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Custom Fileman date output formatting.

2005-05-17 Thread smcphelan
showed. Can you give an example that you feel my function would not be able to do? Kevin --- smcphelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is nice you have developed a M API to convert dates. Everything you show here (except for the at exactly) has been part of VistA for 10 years or more

Re: [Hardhats-members] Custom Fileman date output formatting.

2005-05-16 Thread smcphelan
It is nice you have developed a M API to convert dates. Everything you show here (except for the at exactly) has been part of VistA for 10 years or more... See XLFDT it is more robust than what you show here. - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hardhats

Re: [Hardhats-members] HTML in CPRS ... printing issues

2005-05-13 Thread smcphelan
And how are you going to adhere to HIPAA with your printing? As I understand it, an audit record needs to be keep for each print out. - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hardhats Sourceforge hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: Slow CPRS performance over VPN

2005-05-12 Thread smcphelan
Bhaskar's suggestion would be a nice solution if that is what BCMA does. The BCMA backup program does not relay all relevant information for the EHR for that patient. It only backups up that data that is relevant for the function of giving medication to inpatients only, not all patients. So it

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: Slow CPRS performance over VPN

2005-05-12 Thread smcphelan
of updates. --- Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the glass is half fulllcouldn't BCMA functionality be extended to address the rest of the data and patient popn'?? smcphelan wrote: Bhaskar's suggestion would be a nice solution if that is what BCMA does. The BCMA