KW-G-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

Both GUI and 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.