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 Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @ 11:32 AM
from the VistA dept.
Kevin Toppenberg and 'Eddie' have a YouTube demo video of a WorldVistA GUI configuration and user management tool. This has been a very needed tool in the VistA world. The good news: it looks full featured. The bad news: it is a 7 Gigabytes full distribution with everything right now. This is a very important development in the VistA world. More information as it arrives. Update 08/21/08: It is written in Borland Delphi (same as native CPRS which is like Pascal) Windows only at this time and will be FOSS licensed. Digg this article
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Re: WorldVistA GUI Configuration Utility
by rickst29 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
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The video shows it running under windoze, and that leads to a question: is it native windoze, or is it something which runs on other platforms too? (java, etc.)
Also, is it table-driven? For example, if I'd like to move a patient data item from the "advanced" tab into the basic data tab, because it's always needed in my practice, can I do that without diving into code?
And finally: I actually *AM* quite capable of diving into code. Is it FLOSS, or under other license terms with liberal code inspection and modification terms?
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Re: WorldVistA GUI Configuration Utility
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday August 21, 2008 @ 07:33 AM
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Right now it is written in Delphi which is what CPRS is written in. I have no direct experience but this is said to basically be Pascal. I do think it is windows only with the possibility of porting via Kylix. It will be FLOSS licensed. -- IV
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Re: First look: New WorldVistA GUI Configuration U
by personne on Thursday August 21, 2008 @ 02:13 PM
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Sorry, I just don't get it. It might have been impressive in 1993, when Delphi might have been a viable language and graphical variable editors might have been exciting. But now in an age of cross platform open source apps, seeing this just turns me off Vista even more.
I understand that Vista may be a very powerful system, but it seems to be run by a cadre of high priests who don't want to make any concessions for the real world. So it may remain in a corner forever.
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Re: First look: New WorldVistA GUI Configuration U
by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday August 21, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
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Forever is a long time. Things are moving in the right direction only 'medical time' can be un-comfortably long for all concerned. I would like to agree with you but in the 10 years that I've been closely observing and heavily involved with Health IT in general, precious little has changed and the fundamentals both good and bad remain the same. Also, the 'high priests' are mostly 'busy priests', not necessarily high. -- IV
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