The election is behind us yet the economy is still in the headlines and the number one concern people share. There is a myriad of finger pointing when it comes to assessing blame. Depending on the news source you choose you might hear it’s due to a specific political party or corporate greed or even capitalism itself. Whoever or whatever is to blame is only one piece of the puzzle. What surprised me is how fast everything unraveled and how few people actually yelled ‘the sky is falling’ until the sky actually fell. How can multiple $500 billion plus companies get themselves in this financial situation with so little scrutiny from the rest of financial world until it was too late? It’s a question of accountability.

We can all see the application of accountability in a hospital environment. I’ve worked on many projects with hospitals and it’s not uncommon for a project to get off track. Sometimes they get so off-track we start looking for someone to ‘blame’ and hold ‘accountable’ for being behind schedule. Assessing blame isn’t difficult; especially with an interface project. Most interface projects include multiple vendors, hospital staff and from time to time throw in a consultant to spice it up. I personally say blame the consultants and vendors, they’re always causing trouble. Seriously, who do you hold accountable in this melting pot environment? The clear answer is ‘everyone’. The more pressing question may be ‘how do you hold them accountable’?

The answer to those questions is for each of us to address and take action. I assure you everyone at Iatric Systems takes accountability very seriously. I would like to introduce the other members of my Interface team that I hold accountable.

Charlie Baxter
Associate Vice President Interface Services
978-805-4177
CharlieB@iatric.com

And if I’m not meeting your needs I am accountable to our President, Joel Berman; JoelB@iatric.com, 978-805-4101.

A hospital interface project isn’t a $500 billion business but the level of accountability and commitment from everyone involved requires the same level of intensity. Should Iatric Systems fall short in any way please hold me and my staff accountable. Don’t wait until the ‘sky is falling’ to contact any one of us directly. We are here to serve you!

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Sometimes the old short-term memory fails, or a user calls for a change to a report and you want to avoid having to sleuth thru menus to find the program name. Using NPR.REP, you can let a report find your report.

Use the EDIT ELEMENTS option to provide a default and lookup for the selection on Edit User. You need to add the ID attribute because the @user field does not call a dictionary lookup. The @run.user field, however, does behave as desired so it does not need to have an ID attribute added.

Also change the REQ attributes to N so that you can run the report to select by edit user, or run user, or searching titles, or any combination of criteria.

The selection screen values are actually created with the IG (Ignore) selection operator, as we will use the select values entered by the user in our own "start" macro loop to process the activity and audit trail and check the report title to decide whether to include the report.

Because we will need to process data from two child segments and also check the title, it is easiest to "IG"nore the select values and handle the selection with our own code. Loading the "urn" (internal report name) into a list, and using an LI selection against that list as follows:

In the "start" macro, we loop on the DPM range of reports, select those with a "zcus" and check the title, audit trail, and activity log against the criteria entered for the IG fields. (edit user and edit date range or run user and run date range or string to search for in the report title).

Notice how the list in /URN contains packed (queued) data. We put an asterisk in piece 0 if the edit user is found, an asterisk in |1 if the run user is found, and an asterisk in |2 if the title contains our searched-for text. This allows us to print flags on the output to show which select criteria were met by each report.

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