Hello World - A Message from Scott

Well here goes nothing. First, let's get introductions out of the way.  My name is Scott Morris and I work for Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, OH.  I'm their "iForm guy."  If you work at a hospital with McKesson's HEO (Horizon Expert Orders) system, you'll know what I'm talking about.  If you don't have any idea what I just said, then this blog will probably not make much sense to you.



When I first got involved with the project, there were primarily clinical resources working on the iForms. Don't get me wrong, the gentleman that was creating our iForms was smart and technically-minded, but he didn't have a very strong background in coding.  This lead to pages that worked technically, but had basic functionality.

As I continued to delve deeper into the fray, I found and created all sorts of fun ways to make our iForms more and more intuitive, functional, and frankly, easier for me to work with.  It probably wasn't until I attended McKesson's VGR training in Dallas that I realized just how large the gap is between where we seem to be as  community and where we could be.

Also, I couldn't find anything, and I mean ANYTHING when searching for HEO, VGR, or iForms on any of the major search engines that was referential or helpful for iForm-specific development.  I know that there are some resources out there (we'll go over those), but as they say, "If you can't find it, it [essentially] doesn't exist."

And before I finish, I feel it important to get this all out of the way:

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