On FOCUS

by A 6.0 Application Analyst After a romantic dinner and night in the city, it was now or never.  The proposal was next and went something like this: ”EDM 6.X, like MAGIC, also needs to have tracker treatment and assessment indicators.”  Probably not the proposal story you had in mind, but most people have a proposal story [...]

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by Ed Bishop MEDITECH’s 6.x role based technology appears intended to simplify the clinical user’s workflow.  As a customer, you can define the menu options up to the point a user selects a patient. After patient selection, MEDITECH decided the menu and the workflow choices.  Keeping things consistent and simple seem to be key to [...]

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by Ed Bishop The ForUpdate mutex defines a mutex record only when the data is updated, thus limiting the amount of time that the record is locked. Examples of ForUpdate mutexes are OM Clinical Data entry, OM Order entry, and PCS Assessment edits. The key difference with a ForUpdate mutex is that the cached data [...]

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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 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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