MEDITECH Reports

MEDITECH Questions

How do you add a comma in the thousands place?

eg. 1000.00 = 1,000.00 or 1000000.00 = 1,000,000.00

Read the MEDITECH Answer here.

How do you use a predefined list in an NPR LI Select?

I have tried both LI and CL with my criteria ("ED", "PNP") and I am crashing my report.  

Read the MEDITECH Answer here. 

Where can I find the MEDITECH Programmer's User Manual?  

Read the MEDITECH Answer here. 

Come to the MEDITECH KE and ask a question of your own. 

Improve your MEDITECH (CS) NPR Report Performance

BUF NONE, it's not just for pretty translation screens & readable object code.

This overlooked NPR FOOTNOTE can improve the performance of your MEDITECH reports. Joe's tip in the Iatric Systems, December 2009 Newsletter explains why you might want to use this FOOTNOTE in most of your Client Server NPR reports.

Quoting the MEDITECH NPR Manual: "To turn off buffering, enter BUF NONE in the report's footnote section. If a report has a VAL statement that attempts to replace elements with buffered results increasing a line's length longer than 255 characters, a translation error message appears."

 

MEDITECH Text to Upper or Lower Case

Most programming languages have a lot of different functions for manipulating text, example: converting text to lower OR upper case.

Come kick off a new section in The MEDITECH KE, a MEDITECH Community Wiki, titled String Manipulation. The first entry is titled 1 way to Convert MEDITECH Text to Lower or Upper Case.

 

MEDITECH Data Repository - 5.65 Release

The MEDITECH Data Repository Model has been posted for the 5.65 Release.

Which answered the question I'd been asking, would AOM / RXM be part of this release?  The answer is yes!

Microsoft Excel - Fundamentals for Meditech Reports

When: Friday, November 13th at 3:00 p.m. Eastern.


Where: Sign up for the MEDITECH Reports Blog newsletter. Invitations to this webinar will be sent out Wednesday, November 11th.

New MEDITECH Blogs

While the MEDITECH Reports blog has and always will be about MEDITECH Reports, we interrupt this broadcast to tell you about 2 new blogs you might be interested in reading.

On FOCUS This blog encourages discussion around the challenges you face in determining how or if MEDITECH's migration to the next HCIS impacts you. Each hospital has unique circumstances and we'll examine the role current and future applications play in your decisions. focusblog.iatric.com

Patient Privacy Matters
Ensuring patient privacy is a front and center priority for your hospital or healthcare system. Reporting internal security breaches is now mandated; but what if you could stop breaches before they ever happen? We'll dive into the issues and explore how you can reduce your risk. securityblog.iatric.com

Implementing Parameters NPR Macros (CS)

Ever wished you could use parameters in MEDITECH NPR sub-routines? For now - here's the implementation below.

{@FLD.NO,"A"}^@SEND.DATA

SEND.DATA
{/FIELD,/TXT},
/FIELDS[/REC.TYPE,/FIELD]|1_"TL"^SIZE,
/TXT:SIZE^@PRINTER

FLD.NO
/FLD+1^/FLD

Keep an eye on the MEDITECH Community Bulletin Tips & Tricks in November; I'll be writing about why this makes your life, as an NPR Report Writer, easier.

MEDITECH NPR (CS) - Capturing a List of Information from the Run Time User

If only there was a Select Operator that could capture a list of information from the user, without affecting the standard record selection process. There isn't - but with a little creativity and insight from MEDITECH Knowledge Base Article 4630 (you will need to use your meditech.com user id & password to view this article), you can accomplish the same thing using an LI operator and an entry in the Select Relationship box.

Read the rest here ...

MEDITECH - Testing for NIL Value

I prefer concatenating a variable bills.claim with a period <.>; then comparing that combination bills.claim_. to a period <.> to determine whether a variable contains a value. For me ... bills.claim_.=. is easy to read and maintain, without thinking about what the code does.



However - if I were writing this in a MEDITECH CDS (Custom Defined Screen) Attribute, I'd be inclined to use 'bills.claim instead. When terseness is required, I'm willing to sacrifice some readability or style for functionality.

MEDITECH Client Server Not Printing (Solution)

Paul, a Network Administrator, from Memorial Medical Center writes in with this solution:



In the August 6 issue, you wrote about the RDP workaround for printing in MT.

We had the same issue with a few of our users. However, what we did to solve
it was to set up MT printing on the remote machine similar to how it is set up on a terminal server. Set Document Manager to run as a service.

From either a DOS prompt, or a RUN prompt, type the following:

"C:\Program Files\MEDITECH\Print\VMagicPPII.exe" -i

..or browse to the path:

C:\Program Files\MEDITECH\Print\VMagicPPII.exe

...this will populate the RUN prompt. Then, after the last " hit spacebar then -i

Click OK.

Paul