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It’s common in MEDITECH’s 6.x Data Repository (DR) to encounter fields in PCM or EMR where a single long text field contains a packed data structure. For example, when a multi-select item has been stored with a variety of delimiters and special formatting. If you haven’t run…

First… This tip works if you are using SQL Server 2012 or better (Compatibility Level 110 and up). So before we get into the tip, check your Data Repository to see if you can use this tool: When you run this query, you may find that you…

Wait, what is “time blocking”? It’s generating a list of start and end dates/times in a result set, and then using that set of rows to do something else, like: Generate a set of extract files for a vendor, with one set of files per time block…

In the MEDITECH report writing world, an old, old “gotcha” for database programmers is to write a report query that selects by Discharge Date, and then when the end-users run the report, they eventually realize that they are only getting patients discharged on the last date of…

Teach a man to fish… One of my staff needed to create a custom lookup in a MEDITECH NPR report to show the “mapped from” and “mapped to” values for a particular BAR.CLAIM map, and he asked me, “Have you ever done that?” The dictionary looks like…