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I am in a new position where I will be doing a lot of VFE forms for Centricity and my current resources for assistance are rather limited, so I'm hoping someone can reach out to me and help mentor me a bit. I've got a handful of forms I have created and some that I've been able to modify and they are working but I also have new forms and modification requests coming in quickly now.
The reason for checking out the forums today is that I have an instance right now where I successfully imported some forms from someone else into another Centricity database and the forms look good in VFE, but when you try to load them in Centricity, they do not show anything. You can add them to the encounter with other forms, but if you click on a working form and then to one of these other forms, the new form doesn't display in either the form or the text view. You can then go onto another working form and back and the problematic form still doesn't show. Any thoughts?
Posted : October 13, 2017 4:24 am
Be glad to help. Reach me by email and we can arrange some times to set up Webex sessons.
Posted : October 13, 2017 5:55 am
I was in your shoes a year ago, and over the past year (with a lot of CHUG help), I've created an internal document at my agency that details all my MEL/VFE learnings. It's pretty messy, as it's basically an info dump that we haven't spent much time editing, but I'd be happy to share it if you're interested. Let me go through it and make sure there's no PHI or agency info in it and I'll paste it right into this thread.
Posted : October 18, 2017 4:34 am
As for the actual question you have...
I haven't seen this, but there are a lot of things that may be going wrong and causing this. MEL is incredibly finicky, and its error handling is... not great.
I'd start by making a form that's basically a test form. Make it simple, with a single text box that delivers a message. I usually name it "zTESTNOTE", as I can search for "z" and only my tests show up.
Import that, make sure it displays. If it does, open up the form you imported and copy one chunk, code and all, into your test form. Import it, run it, see if it displays anything. Just keep doing that until you find the offending piece.
If you have a background in programming or coding, try turning on one of the traces. Load the patient chart, then begin an empty encounter. Start the MEL trace (Ctrl + Alt + M, you'll see "MEL Trace" in the bar on the patient chart), then load the file that isn't working.
Go to C:\Users\username\AppData (you'll have to turn on the ability to view hidden folders and files)\Local\Centricity\Logs and open the MEL Trace file. There's a LOT of stuff in there, but you may be able to find something by searching for errors and then looking ahead and behind. I do wonder though, if the form just isn't loading, the MEL trace may be incredibly short.
Posted : October 18, 2017 4:53 am
