KW/Glossary-CPRS

Glossary- CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System - hardly meaningful acronym anymore)

• CPRS is the Provider Interface for the Main Display of the Patient Record and
• Entry of new Record information, especially for Clinical information.

Both GUI and TEXT Dialog versions of CPRS exist in the VistA System.

The GUI version of CPRS is a

• • Multi-Screen/ Multiple-Tab View of a Single Patients Record
    • Tabs Represent the eight or nine different clinical Views
    • Tabs are (unconventionally) on the Bottom of each Screen
    • Each Tab/Screen has multiple Sub-windows, for simultaneous View/Editing capabilities
    • Many Pop-Up Windows occur, to gather inputs, for example when user hits New Problem Button
  • Menu Drop Down Options provide further functions, varying some across tabs(WIndows)
  • The GUI is written as a client program, currently limited to Window Clients
    • The Current Version is written in Pascal and Delphi
    • An Internet Demo is running at VA.gov CPRS Demo DownLoad A client-CPRS is Downloaded and run on Windows with a Demo Internet Server
  • The GUI CPRS interacts with the MUMPS Server/FileMan via RPC Broker Subsystem
    • to query the database for existing patient data,
    • to obtain code-tables limiting values/choices and
    • saving revised or newly created data elements, edited in the GUI CPRS by users, back to the FIleMan Database for the patient.

There is also (still) a dialog version of the same functionality

• • This is entered by FileMan Menu Options
  • Documentation, does not always easily distinguish between these very different interfaces, both called CPRS.

Synonyms potentially for CPRS

HCI (Human Computer Interface), Provider Data Entry, Physician Interaction, Client GUI, Thick Client.