Friday, February 3, 2012

iCPRS: VistA for iPhone/iPad

So I ported vistarpc4r to iOS for our product development needs and I realized...why not create an iPhone/iPad version of CPRS, the Windows GUI front end to the VA VistA electronic health record system.
So we did.  Apple today approved iCPRS for listing in the App Store, so we are letting people know.
iCPRS












Version 1.0.0 is a very basic version.  It mimics the functionality of the cover sheet tab in the CPRS GUI in a read-only fashion.
  • It's free.
  • Does not require any additional software to be installed.
  • By default, it will login into Medsphere's OpenVista demo server with the demo access and verify code(PU1234 and PU1234!!).
  • Additional servers can be added by clicking on the switch button.
  • It has been tested with OpenVista and WorldVista.  It should work with any version of VistA that is based on the VA FOIA and has RPC Broker enabled.
  • Uses the same RPC calls as CPRS.
  • Advice button on the patient information screen is for users of our clinical decision support product, CompleteNote.  This is completely optional.  We also intend it to be used for any one interested in the Infobutton HL7 standard.
Known issues:
  • Long lists of patients.  If selecting all patients, right now the app only shows the first 40 or so.  Will be addressed in next release
  • Visual cue for network fetching.  Right now, there is no indication that the application is fetching data from the VistA server.  I'm working on modify the ios vistarpc code to allow for it.  
Future:
If people like it, we'll add the rest of the CPRS functionality: the other tabs, ability to create and modify information, etc.

Enjoy!




3 comments:

CCurtis said...

Cool! For those of us in VA, could you provide some more background on your relationship with WorldVistA, Medsphere, VA, etc.?

Anonymous said...

No formal relationship with any of them. I've followed the various hardhats and Medsphere sites, attended a VistA conference, and had a few interactions with people from many VistA-related organizations. We've adopted VistA as an in-house testing tool for our software product development.
I'd love to find out if iCPRS works inside the firewall at the VA.

Anonymous said...

is it deleted for iTunes store?