A Thousand Hits

For whatever strange reason, I like to keep an eye on the statistics of the blog, how many visits we get in a given day and what kinds of articles people are reading.  It's not that I'm an attention hog (as far as I can tell), but I like to know that what we're doing here is actually helping people.

I started this blog two months ago and today we got our 1,000th view.  In my first post, dated 4/28, I said,

"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.'"

I guess I wasn't the only one that has been looking.

Help Your Users With Quick Orders - Uncheck All

Part of the convenience of iForms is the ability to "pre-check" items, meaning that when the iForm is opened, some checkboxes start with the check mark already in it.  This makes an iForm work like an orderset that has a number of "order with previous" items.

However, when we first started making iForms, especially long or complicated ones, we felt like we had to tread a thin line regarding what items were pre-checked, not because we doubted the clinical necessity or contribution, but because we foresaw situations in which a physician may want to order just a few common things instead of the entire she-bang.