Re: Re: Mini-Treatice on How to Use PDF Ac roForms

[Guest guest]

abut relevance to the list- right I think when you talk in your acronyms

and private language we glaze over-

What I find useful is that for me i see who is out there on the list that

is a resource in certain areas should I have a question

and some of the posts, for years, that seem to be on a relevance I am not

ready to hear yet, well, I save.

I used to not know what scanning meant and had a folder full of things were

meaningless til I had an emr and had to use it then that saved stuff was

helpful and is not needed anymore.

Re: Mini-Treatice on How to Use PDF

AcroForms

Graham,

I am probably all wet, but would venture that the general topic of

automatic filling of .pdf forms

by connecting them to our EMRs or other data sources is appropriate,

but the specific details of the programming are probably not of

any interest to most (but not all) of the people on the list. So maybe

links to working demos of tools that work that we find or develop are

of interest, but how

to program CGI scripts, JAVA, REBOL, Tcl/Tk, are not relevent to the

list.

Maybe just general ideas of what is needed in a program or sort of a

flow diagram

of the program logic or general way it works, without getting into

any programming details might be relevent.

I was thinking of trying to program something that would be

a small SQLite database connected to a specific .pdf form/forms that

you could download as one executable file that has all the needed

software to run it self contained. It might not be connected to a

specific EMR, but at least if you ever had to fill out a .pdf form

on one patient, you could save the information and re-use it for that

same form for that patient over again. That could save a lot of work

for someone that does not yet have an EMR, or who does not have one

that can fill out .pdf forms. There are some of those available

commercially, I think.

Caldwell

>

> Just wondering if this discussion about programming techniques is off

> topic to this list and whether it would be more appropriate on another

> list/forum ...

>

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> Graham Chiu

> http://www.synapsed <http://www.synapsedirect.com> irect.com

> Synapse-EMR - innovative electronic medical records system

>

[Guest guest]

I just created a small video that shows my system of PDF forms

http://synapse-movies.s3.amazonaws.com/Synapse-EMR-PDF-forms.wmv

or, the very blurry youtube version

> I am probably all wet, but would venture that the general topic of

> automatic filling of .pdf forms

> by connecting them to our EMRs or other data sources is appropriate,

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Graham Chiu

http://www.synapsedirect.com

Synapse-EMR - innovative electronic medical records system

[Guest guest]

Lou

The difference in use is that with Synapse's forms, you type into an

image of a PDF ( sometimes a fuzzy one at that too as I have to

convert the original PDF into a JPG, or PNG and I have yet to find a

program that does a decent job ), whereas with Acrobat forms, you type

into the actual PDF.

>

> Graham-I'm really digging some of your automation techniques. Am I

> right in saying that the difference between your PDF form creation and

> the full version of Adobe Acrobat is that yours is linked fairly

> tightly to your electronic health record?

>

> I like the demonstration-your electronic health record looks laid out

> quite logically. You may have said this previously-how do I sign up,

> download the record and take a look at it?

>

Well, you don't have to really sign up to anything

The main way is however to sign up to the www.synapsedirect.com site

and then follow the download links.

The other way is to download the installer from

http://synapse-emr.s3.amazonaws.com/SynapseEMRClient.exe

This installer is a little out of date in that it installs an expired

version of the synapse.exe in c:\emr\client\ I think. You then have

to replace that one with one of the latest betas from here

http://compkarori.no-ip.biz:8090/Synapse_Client_news

and then you're good to go and connect up to our demo server.

Documentation is here: http://compkarori.no-ip.biz:8090/

If you have any problems I can reply to them here ... or on the website forums.

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Graham Chiu

http://www.synapsedirect.com

Synapse-EMR - innovative electronic medical records system