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 Joel Berman To convert or not to convert. That is the question. Over the past year or so, many of you have struggled with whether you should rush to get in line to convert to FOCUS or stay with what you have, whether it’s MAGIC or Client/Server (C/S). A few months ago at HIMSS [...]

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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 Frank Fortner Recently, there has been a growing trend of concern expressed by some sites (particularly MAGIC sites) about the possible migration to the 6.x platform.  Some of this has been shared on the MEDITECH L-list while other concerns have come up in private conversations with various IT leaders.  I’ve spoken with many existing [...]

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by Joe Cocuzzo Creating a download report is streamlined in the Report Designer, although it was not that difficult in the NPR Report Writer. If you designate a report format as Export rather than Standard on the General page, the Regions and Layout Pages become unavailable and the Fields page has a setting for download: [...]

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