Re: [Hardhats-members] "Is there an interface with ...?"

2006-05-23 Thread JohnLeoZ
Something I stumbled across this afternoon that fits here, I think. http://www.healthcareguy.com/index.php/archives/240#comment-215 Matthew King wrote: As someone who often asks questions of these types, here is what I usually mean to ask for a Practice Management Interface: --

RE: [Hardhats-members] "Is there an interface with ...?"

2006-05-23 Thread Matthew King
As someone who often asks questions of these types, here is what I usually mean to ask for a Practice Management Interface: 1) Can the PMS and VistA exchange patient demographic data? I'm really am only concerned with enough demographic information to ensure it is the correct, unduplicated patient

Re: [Hardhats-members] "Is there an interface with ...?"

2006-05-23 Thread Marc Krawitz
When I teach HL7 classes, I present the following (true) case of an ill-defined interface. Client asks me if a physician's drawing could be scanned and then encoded and embedded into an HL7 message. I respond - "sure, I can encoded it in base64 format and include it in a Z-segment. However, wha

Re: [Hardhats-members] "Is there an interface with ...?"

2006-05-22 Thread Greg Woodhouse
--- Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm > > Speaking with representative of lab equipment etc, I thought that the > answer to "Can product ABC interface to software XYZ?" was alway > "YES." It's always just a 'small' programming fee away... :-) > > It's kind of like asking,

Re: [Hardhats-members] "Is there an interface with ...?"

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Hmmm Speaking with representative of lab equipment etc, I thought that the answer to "Can product ABC interface to software XYZ?" was alway "YES." It's always just a 'small' programming fee away... :-) It's kind of like asking, can we build a bridge from point A to B. Sure, its always just