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by Michelle Schneider I have really been diving into MEDITECH’s 6.0 Clinical Panels.  This is, after all, the latest MEDITECH has to offer for patient chart review and support for clinical decision making.   I find it very frustrating though, because it’s difficult to get a good flow of data evaluation.  In MEDITECH’s demonstrations, the data [...]

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by Joe Cocuzzo Some aspects of the new Report Designer are actually nicer than those of the NPR Report Writer.    Field selection and field placement on the picture is quicker and easier.  Of course, if you have the NPR RW keystrokes and NPR RW functionality burned into your neural pathways, you might think that you [...]

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by Ed Bishop MEDITECH has revisited locking in their Advanced Technology platform, and has replaced the lock with mutual exclusion (often abbreviated to mutex) algorithms. MEDITECH mainly uses two mutex definitions, the ForUI mutex and the ForUpdate mutex. The ForUI mutex defines a mutex record surrounding the work in progress, locking the entire user interface. [...]

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