Welcome to Sam Habiel's home page...

Summary of My Expertise

I am one of the foremost experts on VISTA and RPMS outside of VA and IHS. I have the unique distinction of having set-up multiple systems from the ground up. Today, I support VISTA and RPMS users.

My software

Historically, most software I have written is in MUMPS due to my involvement in VISTA and RPMS. In the same arena, I have written software in C#, Javascript/HTML, Delphi, Java and Python. Prior to getting involved in medical software, I wrote some stuff in ASP.net.

Today, I work on a C codebase and a lot of scripting around it.

These are some of the big open source projects that I worked on.

• This web site and all its contents run on my own code base of M based web server running on top of YottaDB.
• I have expanded the VISTA XML Parser as well as fixed bugs in it. You can find it here.
• As a pharmacist, I am interested in pharamcy topics in VISTA.
  • This is the RxNorm package I wrote for VISTA.
  • This is a package which allows you to transport drug files from one VISTA system to another.
• I ported BMX.Net and the Scheduling GUI from RPMS to VISTA. You can find the Scheduling GUI here.
• I worked on porting GT.M onto various platforms, notably Cygwin and Mac OS X. I also maintain a historical repository of GT.M code.
• I brought back a software programming suite for MUMPS from the dead.

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Writings

UTF-8 and VISTA (outdated now; see Plan VI below)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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Plan VistA Internationalization (Plan VI)

The summary of all this work can be found here.

• Plan VI - CPRS Support for Unicode
• Plan VI - TIU Support for Unicode
• Plan VI - Delphi Localization Frameworks
• Plan VI - CPRS Localization Using Kryvich's Framework
• Plan VI - Docker Image for Experimentation
• Plan VI - Internationalizing Date Display in CPRS Blog Post
• Plan VI - Entering CJK Names and Data Localization
• Plan VI - Menus Part 1
• Plan VI - Menus Part 2
• Plan VI - Replacing the US ICD-10 with the Korean ICD-10 in the Lexicon
• Plan VI - Getting the DataLoader to work
• Plan VI - Fixing the CPRS Comma Decimal and Dynamically Selecting Runtime Language
• Plan VI - French, Italian, Russian, and Arabic CPRS

VistaPedia

A sizable collection of VISTA and RPMS set-up articles can be found on my page on Vistapedia.

Internal Links on this website

My CV

My Photos

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Articles

• Internationalizing VISTA
• Converging VISTA and RPMS
• History of RPMS
• FLOSS Weekly Writeup
• Barzun's Dawn to Decadance Book List

Presentations

• Fileman 22.2
• M Web Services
• Challenges for using VISTA outside of the US
• Panorama Framework
• Cryptography in VISTA
• How Objective are Drug-Drug Interactions?
• PPS-N For the VistA Community
• One-Click Deployment of VistA Development Sandbox in Azure Cloud
• RPMS Immunizations Package
• VistA Internationalization Project Short Summary
• Using TRM Approved Software to Load Synthetic Patients into VistA for Testing

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Installing VistA

1. Install Cache
2. Install GT.M
3. Install VistA on GT.M
4. Initialize VistA
5. Setup Clinics
6. Setup MAS Parameters
7. Setup Wards
8. Admit Patients to Hospital
9. Update a VistA System
10. Set-up HL7 in VistA

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Educational Resouces on VistA

• Kelowna Class
• VistA Curriculum for Progammers and Informaticists