On FOCUS

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 is [...]

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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 are [...]

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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. The mutex [...]

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by Janet Clarke
When you consider the impact that a 6.x migration would have on your end-users, bear in mind that a significant amount of time will need to be arranged for the re-education of the clinicians who will be using the PCS (NUR) module. The documentation routines in 6.x will feel somewhat familiar to current [...]

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by Mike Devoe
In a prior posting, I reminisced about my early days as a script programmer when I thought scripting would eventually become obsolete.  My thinking was scripting would remain viable as long as we were working with terminal emulation where we could easily watch text being written to the screen.
Over the years, terminal emulation [...]

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