WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/0616 SemiVivA is a SemiVivA package of WorldVistA EHR v TEST 2007/06/16 configured for GT.M and bundled with GT.M V5.2-001. A SemiVivA is the basic way to install VistA and GT.M if you already have a PC running GNU/Linux on x86 hardware.
Much of WorldVistA EHR is in the public domain through the US Freedom of Information Act under which FOIA VistA is released by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Any part that is not in the public domain is Copyright 2007 WorldVistA and released under the terms of the GPL - GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). GT.M for x86 GNU/Linux is also released herewith under the terms of the GPL. WorldVistA EHR TEST 2007/06/16 differs from the CCHIT Certified WorldVistA EHR v VOE / 1.0 in the following ways: 1. The pharmacy files in support of Pharmacy Orderable Items is less than optimal (it is enhanced considerably in completeness and accuracy in the CCHIT Certified WorldVistA EHR v VOE / 1.0). 2. The templates modified and added by the Clinical Application Coordinator for CCHIT Certification are likewise not included. Furthermore, support for the test patches developed for CCHIT Certification is provided by WorldVistA only for the VOE / 1.0 release version and not for the TEST releases. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT CERTIFIED BY THE CERTIFICATION COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (http://cchit.org). YOU MAY NOT CLAIM CCHIT CERTIFICATION, USE THE CCHIT LOGO, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION RELATED TO CCHIT WITH RESPECT TO THIS SOFTWARE. This release brings other changes as well: 1. WorldVistA would like to thank Medsphere Systems Corporation (http://www.medsphere.com) for providing the drug files. 2. Thanks to Cameron Schlehuber, VPE is now operational in this release. 3. There is now a framework for add-ons to VistA/GT.M. This permits Serenji to be bundled (see below) with this SemiVivA. As other add-ons become available - M2Web and Esi Objects come to mind - the frame work will allow them to be added in to VistA environments. This initial framework for add-ons is primitive and orders add-ons according to the shell's ordering of their directory names. Also, if an add-on has its own global variables, some hand-tweaking of the global directory will be required. Please consider the framework to be experimental for now, and provide feedback. 4. Version 2.3 of Serenji from George James Software (http://georgejames.com) provides a free license for editing of M routines (use of the debugger still requires a license to be purchased). With permission from George James, version 2.3 of Serenji is bundled with this SemiVivA. Serenji consists of a Windows based GUI and routines that execute as part of the M process. The M routines are accessed via the add-on framework. An installer for the Windows component is distributed in s23.exe in the tmp sub-drectory - please copy this to a Windows machine and install it there if you wish to use it. Instructions for Use: 1. Download the encrypted distribution file WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/worldvista/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc) to a directory on your PC, e.g., /Distrib/WorldVistAEHR/ 2. Extract the files from the distribution and install them. Execute the following 2 command lines as root: cd /usr/local mcrypt -d </Distrib/WorldVistAEHR/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616SemiVivA.tgz.nc | tar zxvf - The decryption password can be obtained from the file http://downloads.sourceforge.net/worldvista-ehr/Readme_GTM_SemiVivA.txt mcrypt packages are available for most major Linux distributions (its home page is http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net). 3. To use the software, you must create a working environment. If you want to create one in ~/myVistA, execute the following as a normal user: /usr/local/WorldVistAEHRvTEST20070616/install ~/myVistA 4a. To run the environment in ~/myVistA, as a normal user, execute: ~/myVistA/gtm_V5.2-001/run 4b. To run the environment with Serenji enabled, as a normal user, execute: ~/myVistA/gtm_V5.2-001/run_add-ons 5. To invoke Serenji, you will need to run VistA with add-ons, and then start the Serenji shell: do Shell^%Serenji(<IPGUI>) where <IPGUI> is the IP address or the name of the Windows PC on which the Serenji GUI is installed and a Serenji listener is active. In the Serenji shell, to start the debugger at entryref P^DI, execute: db P^DI Please e-mail comments and questions to me, or post them to the hardhats list (http://groups.google.com/group/hardhats). Regards -- Bhaskar
