Software that is not used is useless.
Facing the challenge that doctors prefer to spend time with their patients
rather than facing the monitor, we have fine-tuned methods in our
DataWindow-based forms so that user entry is quick, painless, and a pleasure.
These include the use of dropdown lists and DataWindows for efficient,
correct and faster entries, in addition to accurately filling in text columns
with limited keyboard entry. Visual guides and markers for data in relation
to patient images are also provided.
Keywords: PowerBuilder, DataWindow, List Select
Introduction
We are health care professionals and have created applications for our own
needs. After selecting PowerBuilder as our application development tool of
choice, we have not looked at nor felt the need to ... (more)
We make customized electronic medical record formats for physicians. We've
been using multi-select list boxes to enter various choices together as part
of a single column in many DataWindows in our applications. They help enter
some interrelated data faster without creating an independent table and/or
nested report.
A review of the need, outcome, and sample code are provided with a plea t... (more)
Most new users of PowerBuilder start with SQL Anywhere as the back-end
database engine (formerly Adaptive Server Anywhere or ASA, and before that
Watcom). With growth, a need to shift and adapt to a wider database platform
is thrust on developers by customers. A recent exercise in this regard,
besides re-emphasizing our past amateurishness, has also helped us make a
clean, lean applicati... (more)
SB Gogia is a plastic surgeon in New Delhi. He has contributed to the software development efforts of his family-owned company - AMLA MEDIQUIP. Gogia has worked mostly with SQL and PowerBuilder, although he has dabbled in JavaScript, C++, VB and more.
Keith Bergelt
Ricardo Aravena
Gaurav Mantri
Aditya Banerjee
John Karamitsos
Kaj van de Loo
Bob Little
Alois Reitbauer
Chris Schin
Richard Gordon
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