NPR Report Writing Tips : January 2012

NPR Tip: Stripping characters for a Download Report

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President – NPR Services

This month, we will show you an easy way to filter output in a download report to remove characters which will cause problems for the parsing of fields and records in the receiving system. A simple example would be . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips : January 2012

NPR Report Writing Tips

by Joe Cocuzzo, Iatric Systems Vice President – NPR Services

Avoiding Fragments (Client/Server Only) The “official” technique for crossing applications in an NPR report is to write another report as a fragment and call it via a utility program %Z.rw.fragment. The fragment then takes over and prints or puts some data in /R.FRAG.VAL that you . . . → Read More: NPR Report Writing Tips

Meditech-L: Need Help with NPR Report Calculate date to select by

%Z.day.from.date(@.today) = DOW 1-7

%Z.date.add(DATE,0-N) will subtract N days from any date and give you the date.

Combine these in a start macro to put your date range into /FROM and /THRU and then use those in your selections.

If “a whole week from two weeks ago” means back up to the current week’s . . . → Read More: Meditech-L: Need Help with NPR Report Calculate date to select by

December 2010 NPR Report Writing Tips

by Joe Cocuzzo, Iatric Systems Vice President of NPR Services

Nursing Report that finds its own interventions (MAGIC or Client/Server)

Recently I was asked to write a report to present the most recently documented home medications on a selected patient, and I was given a list of 20 comment queries that contained the data . . . → Read More: December 2010 NPR Report Writing Tips

Meditech-L: line check for horizontal lines

by Joe Cocuzzo, Vice President NPR Services, Iatric Systems

%Z.graphics can be used to print horizontal lines of desired thickness and length anywhere on the page.

A loop and a set of calls to Z.graphics could do what you want.

If you don’t have an Iatric mousepad, go here: http://www.iatric.com/information/z-programs.asp for details on the . . . → Read More: Meditech-L: line check for horizontal lines