On FOCUS

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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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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by Frank Fortner One of the things Iatric Systems’ development team has been working on for the past few years is pulling data across from the MEDITECH Advanced Database (MAD) back to a job running in NPR. Yes, I realize it “can’t be done.” If only I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard [...]

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