Happy 2013 - jQuery iForm Library, Anyone?

Happy New Year, everyone! The year 2012 was quite a year, wasn't it? And with 2013 just now beginning, I see a world of possibilities ahead of us. There are some exciting and scary things coming ahead in the world of CPOE; if your facility has attested for Meaningful Use phase 1, you have an idea of what I'm talking about.

I have some projects that I would love to unveil at some point this year. One of which I'd like to get some community feedback first. I've created a jQuery plug-in specifically geared toward iForms.

TextBox Placeholder

Here's another neat one that I wrote a little while back which allows us to put a placeholder in a textfield.

The Benefits of Building an Outline for VGR iForms

We started building our VGR iForms before we got any real formalized training, but fortunately for us, we hadn't started using VGR until close to when we went for training. During the training, we got some very good advice:

"When building a VGR iForm, it's best practice to build an outline with all of your orderables first."

We didn't get a full explanation of the reason at the time, but I can tell you from just a few months experience and looking at the larger picture, it's the best advice that he could've given us. The quick explanation that he gave to us was that it helped separate the clinical duties / responsibilities from the technical / development duties and that's certainly true, but it's only a piece of the puzzle.

InSight 2012

Just as a quick FYI, I am going to be at this year's annual InSight conference. I've been asked to present at two sessions: those called "If You Build It (Well), They Will Order." I hope to see you there!

Diagnosis Keyword Search

Had a neat question come up the other day and it lead to an even neater script that I thought I might share with you. The question was; if a patient is diabetic, can we indicate that on the diet iForm for...(some medical reason, I kinda blank out on those)...? But the problem was really interesting and got me to thinking.