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- HEALTH: Visual Basic(TM) 3.0 Pen Healthcare Application
-
- HEALTH contains seven forms for admitting and diagnosing a
- patient in a healthcare facility. This program is fairly
- large and unoptimized, so load times are significant. Tap
- firmly on the buttons for Next Page, Previous Page, and so
- on, and then wait as HEALTH loads each form.
-
- > The first form is a Patient Identification form. To
- complete this form, enter numbers in the bedit field, tap
- the button, then tap the appropriate Gender radio button.
- Do not tap the Enable Entry Checking check box in the
- lower part of the screen--this option opens a smart form
- that won't let you move to the next screen until all
- fields are filled out.
-
- > The second form is fairly straightforward. Note that if
- you tap the icon, it will reformat and lock that field.
- For example, after entering the date, tap the icon next to
- it to format the date and lock that field.
-
- > The third form, In Case of Emergency Notify, contains
- an hedit field for medical diagnosis. You can write
- anything you want in this field, but print neatly. The
- application will try to recognize whatever you write.
-
- > The fourth form, Physical, contains diagrams of the
- body. You can draw on these diagrams to diagnose or
- highlight any problems. This screen takes some time to
- load, so tap the Next Page icon quickly. The ink display
- rate is good; hold the pen down on the screen for a
- second, and then write as quickly as you like. You can tap
- the Lock icon once to lock the ink, and a second time to
- clear the screen.
-
- > The fifth form, Clinical Assessment, contains multiple
- forms that you can fill out to note allergies, hearing and
- eyesight limitations, and so on. To view all forms at
- once, choose Arrange from the top part of the screen.
- However, having many screens on display can intimidate a
- new user, so we suggest that you fill out only the first
- form. For example:
-
- 1. Tap Hearing.
-
- 2. Tap Normal Left.
-
- 3. Tap Impaired Right.
-
- 4. Tap Vision.
-
- 5. Tap Impaired.
-
- 6. Tap Glasses.
-
- 7. Tap Far-sighted.
-
- 8. Tap Next Page to move to the next form. Next Page
- appears as text (not as a button) in the upper-right
- corner of the screen.
-
- > The sixth form is a diagnosis screen. Use the scroll
- bars to scroll through the potential diagnoses (some of
- them are rather humorous), and select the most appropriate
- one. This is the last form, so tap the Exit button
- (represented by an open door) at the bottom of the screen
- to close the application.
-
- > The seventh form is brought up every time you tap the
- open door icon. The menus allow you to save your work,
- view the different screens that you have entered, or exit
- the application.
-
- You move from form to form using the Next Page or Previous
- Page buttons at the bottom of the screen. You can close
- the application or skip pages at any point by tapping the
- half-open door icon at the bottom of the screen.
-
- HEALTH was built and tested under Microsoft(R) Windows(TM)
- version 3.1 and Visual Basic version 3.0. The program
- requires PENWIN.DLL, which can be found in both Microsoft
- Windows for Pen Computing and the Microsoft Windows
- version 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK).
-
- KEYWORDS: PR-CD2; VB
-