About 1 year ago,
the vendor of the EMR system of our hospital had come to our hospital for demonstration.
They had presented their upgrade plan for our progress note and medical order
system(which is currently using the old system I had written with the VB2008).
The offer was not an impressive one as no demo program was shown. The management
had however requested the vendor to present us with something that look like
the system which I had implemented almost 8 years ago. They had asked me if I
could provide them with the source code, and I gladly complied. Frank said, I
was not a good programmer then, sometimes, it would took me a good couple of
hours to understand what I had written in the past. I had however stopped any
further development of the program since then. I would make minor modification
and correction as per request by my colleague from time to time. At the end of
last year, The new triage system was implemented and I needed to upgrade the ED
triage program. I decided to upgrade the old VS2008 to VS 2012 as the OS my
computer was running xp. The upgrade did not go smooth and I was
force to take a leap to VS2015. After 1 + months of struggle I had finally
migrated my program from VS2008 to VS2015 with some info gathered from the net.
At that point, I
was quite confident and proceeded with the upgrading of database. I managed to
install a mysql server on the qnap NAS in my house. Later the MIS department
leader had provided me with an old computer running server2012. I configured a
mysql server on it as well and shifted the whole database over to the new home. The effect was
stunning as the access time was very fast comparing with the Microsoft Access
DB I used in the past.
The MIS leader had
however informed me that the hospital had decided not to purchase the new
progress note system from our vendor as they were unable to come up with any
demo program.
Well, it was a
milestone for me as my program now looks like something mature enough to be
called a product.
I had finished the
nursing record part and will be going to launch next month….
Well, my next step
is web based….
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