A MEDITECH 6.0 customer recently requested our help to speed up a report she was using to find all accounts with a final abstract date of T-1. Her report, using the “abs.status.x” index was taking several hours to compile, and this was causing issues for some outside vendor.
In an earlier blog tip I showed how to add an “Echo Name” feature to a MAGIC NPR report, but I did not show a method to do the same thing for Client/Server because I assumed I’d need to use the %NPR.UI programs to write data to the screen and fight the Syntax Checker, which attempts to block any calls to %NPR.
MEDITECH migrations platform bring many challenges; one of them being that you may find yourself with a new LIVExDB in the picture and once you’re past the go-live you find that data is flowing only into the new LIVExDB and not into the old one anymore.
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MAGIC and Client/Server Time Stamps and how to use them.
Example Reports
Report with "elapsed time" information
Export of Doctor Dictionary Entries created or edited on/after selected date.
List of NPR Reports "run since" elected date
If you have a report that users are going to run and wait for, it can be nice to print some kind of progress message to the screen to keep them entertained.
The easiest way to do this is to use the @W.display macro, which will show a message in a window while the report runs.
One of the challenges of the Data Repository (DR) is that we often need sets of tables populated with data and, despite everyone’s best efforts, when the rubber hits the road – one of them is empty. The MT task to get it turned on missed it, or you were doing it yourself with a self-service Special IL (if you’re on C/S or MAGIC), and you skipped one yourself.
A BAR analyst from a C/S hospital posted a request to the "Meditech-L" mailing list, asking for help in including the last billing comment and last billing comment date on a BAR.PAT report.
One limitation of NPR report graphical attributes is that you can only start vertical lines at the top of a box. Here is an example of a page header for a discharge order form:
At MUSE 2014, the most popular "tip" was probably the demonstration of an NPR report that allows the user to send output to "DOWNLOAD" with a CSV extension on the file and two footnotes on the report allow the just created file to open automatically in Excel. No "End of Report" message to close. No need to find the report flat file and open with Excel.
For tips on using the DR Data Def Tables in CS/MAGIC 5.67 or MT 6.07/6.15, please see this updated post.
One of the challenges of DR-based report development is the same as for NPR or RD… where is the data you want stored? One way to find out is to go into MEDITECH and find the field, and – if you are lucky – you can do:
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