I don't have any experience with the ipad other than playing with one at the Apple store.
What I had in mind was something like RDP where the doctor connects to our VFP application running at the office using terminal services. We have clients who now do this with various laptops including Apple products. My question was specific to the iPad regarding the need to input minimal alpha characters and using VFP drop down lists. We are not interested in re-writing our application to run natively on the iPad. We have clients (groups) with as many as 100K patient accounts. They have multiple people doing scheduling and billing data entry. We don't think all these functions are realistic on a tablet at this time. But a limited function like entering e-prescriptions and maybe some limited medical record input would be realistic. For the long term, I wondered if re-writing into python would allow more flexibility connecting laptops and tablets with desktops and servers without the need for Windows and terminal services, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Roche" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:00 AM Subject: Re: vfp9 sp2 ipad etc On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > We have clients who want to use our software (vfp9 sp2) on an ipad. > Specifically, our software is certified for > e-prescriptions. A doctor could write a prescription while visiting a patient > in the hospital for example. I'd strongly recommend you determine if it would be possible for your software to be "certified for e-prescriptions" if it was used as a web application. In that case, any web-capable device (iPad, iPhone, Android phone, Android pad Xoom, smartphone, netbook, MacBook or web-enabled TV) might be able to use your application and you wouldn't need to rewrite it for each proprietary platform. (Maybe adjust for geometry and resolution, though...) And the choice of the language to rewrite the web server in would be up to you (West-Wind Web Connect, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.) as an internal decision. Writing rich-client apps natively on the machine may be necessary if you need to take advantage of their particular hardware (GPS, camera, etc.) but means a lot more effort up front, and a lot of dependency on the hardware vendor. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/11de01cbdcf4$73369900$7a00a8c0@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
