When upgrading your Centricity platform, the Blackbird Framework will require a couple of changes. For those of you who invoke the framework with the standard Blackbird-provided form or quicktext macros, the update will be very easy. First, you will need to install an updated clinical kit in your Centricity Environment. It is located here: https://blackbirdsolutions.com/?p=650 Second: If you […]
Year: 2017
The Blackbird Content Kit
Click on the appropriate link to download. BBSKit for CPS 12.2 or greater BBSKit for EMR 9.10 or greater BBSKit for older versions of CPS and EMR
HTML | MEL dll registration
Occasionally, installing CPS or EMR will result in a key ActiveX control not being correctly registered on the workstation. This generally manifests itself with the Blackbird Framework appearing to have no content in the HTML window. Usually, this can be fixed with a one-time command line procedure. Recipe to register DLL for Single User Training: […]
Converting between dates and IDs in CPS/EMR
Occasionally, you need to retrieve date fields that don’t look like dates. The most common example in CPS is the clinicaldate field in the document table. There are formulae for converting between these IDs and their corresponding dates. Here is an example query that shows how to retrieve the clinicaldate as a real date as […]