Aside: WorldVistA and RPMS.

[I, Valdes]

An aside: I've never used RPMS, but there seems to be many goodies in
it that VA FOIA VistA and its derivatives do not have. I understand
that one of those derivatives is unfortunately a piece of proprietary
software for the GUI presentation layer that is owned by Medsphere. Is
that more or less why RPMS is not particularly used or discussed much
by this community?

I have also heard that RPMS has a GUI scheduling piece that is um, not
that proprietary in that the source is available but it is Visual
Basic so it is not proprietary but the platform it runs on is. Can it
be adapted for use with VA FOIA VistA and its derivatives?

-- IV

[Ben Mehling]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:01 AM, I, Valdes <iva...@hal-pc.org> wrote:

that one of those derivatives is unfortunately a piece of proprietary
software for the GUI presentation layer that is owned by Medsphere. Is
that more or less why RPMS is not particularly used or discussed much
by this community?

Medsphere does own one of the front-end applications that RPMS sites use.  There are a number of others, including a scheduling application.

Traditionally this group has been more focused on VistA.  Only recently, in my experience, has this group been more open to the idea of the looking at RPMS.

Finally, I would suggest that any time one evaluates a project, they look at the availability of all the software.  Does the project have a web or FTP site where software can be downloaded? (a la, the VA FOIA FTP site).  Is documentation available?

I have also heard that RPMS has a GUI scheduling piece that is um, not
that proprietary in that the source is available but it is Visual
Basic so it is not proprietary but the platform it runs on is. Can it
be adapted for use with VA FOIA VistA and its derivatives?

This is software -- almost anything is possible.

- Ben