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Glossary-    CPRS  (Computerized Patient Record System - hardly meaningful acronym anymore)
*CPRS is the Provider Interface for the Main Display of the Patient Record and
*Entry of new record information

Both GUI and Dialog versions of CPRS exist in the VistA System.
==The GUI version of CPRS is a ==
**multi-subwindowed and 
**Multi-Screen/ Multiple-Tab View of a Single Patients Record
***Tabs are (unconventionally) on the Bottom of each Screen
**Menu Drop Down Options provide further functions, varying some across tabs(WIndows)
**The GUI is written as a client program, currently limited to Window Clients
***The Current Version is written in Pascal and Delphi
***An Internet Demo is running at [http://www1.va.gov/CPRSdemo/ VA.gov CPRS Demo DownLoad] A client-CPRS is Downloaded and run on Windows with a Demo Internet Server
**The GUI CPRS interacts with the MUMPS Server/FileMan via RPC Broker Subsystem 
***to query the database for existing patient data, 
***to obtain code-tables limiting values/choices and 
***saving revised or newly created data elements, edited in the GUI CPRS by users, back to the FIleMan Database for the patient.

==There is also (still) a dialog version of the same functionality==
**This is entered by FileMan Menu Options
** Documentation, does not always easily distinguish between these very different interfaces, both called CPRS.

==Synonyms potentially for CPRS==
HCI Human Computer Interface, Provider Data Entry, Physician Interaction, Client GUI, Thick Client.