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Package

The set of programs, files, documentation, help prompts, and installation procedures required for a given software application. For example, Laboratory, Pharmacy, and MAS are packages. A VistA software environment composed of elements specified via the Kernel’s Package file. Elements include files and associated templates, namespaced routines, and namespaced file entries from the Option, Key, Help Frame, Bulletin, and Function files. Packages are transported using VA FileMan’s DIFROM routine that creates initialization routines to bundle the files and records for export. Installing a package involves the execution of initialization routines that create the required software environment. Verified packages include documentation. As public domain software, verified packages may be requested through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Source: Spinal Cord Dysfunction V. 2.0 User Manual

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This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library

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Package

Otherwise known as an application. A set of M routines, files, documentation and installation procedures that support a specific function within VistA.

Source: Clinical Procedures V. 1.0 User Manual

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This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library

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Package

Otherwise known as an application. A set of M routines, files, documentation and installation procedures that support a specific function within VISTA (e.g., the ADT and Immunology Case Registry applications).

Source: Immunology Case Registry v.2.1 User Manual

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This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library

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Package

The set of programs, files, documentation, help prompts, and installation procedures required for a given software application.

Source: Functional Independence Measurement V. 1.0 User Manual

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This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library