FYI - Another UV shop going away...

[Robert Porter-3]

Just FYI,
 
Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab from Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com).  The in-house system was originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated faxing, connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL & Sybase, some GUI (where it made sense), etc.
 
Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly...
 
Robert
 
 
 
 
Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java
Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst
Laboratory Information Services
Ochsner Health System
 
 
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[Bill Haskett]

Robert:

Good luck.  It's a shame management and IT can't seem to understand that
the ROI for such a change will never approach zero from the west, and
the only reason for such a change is to spend someone elses money to
make an individual, or group of individuals, look intelligent.  :-(

Reminds me of many of us who can't figure out the economics of pricing;
thus figure when the demand curve is shifted to the east, prices go
down.   Lord, protect others from our ignorance!  :-)

Bill

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*Subject:* [U2] FYI - Another UV shop going away...

> Just FYI,
>
> Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab from Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com).  The in-house system was originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated faxing, connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL&  Sybase, some GUI (where it made sense), etc.
>
> Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java
> Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst
> Laboratory Information Services
> Ochsner Health System
>
>
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[John Thompson-15]

I'm fighting the same stuff where I'm at.  Although, we aren't that big of
a chain, only a 300 user system or so.  Its an automotive aftermarket
supplier.

They will spend a million to get "Information at their fingertips", but,
they won't buy something like MITS or just wait on one of us to write the
code...  Boggles my mind...

I think we're all going to have to learn to be diplomats, salesmen,
motivational speakers, etc.  Just being a technical person (admin or
developer), isn't good enough any more.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bill Haskett <wphaskett@...>wrote:

> Robert:
>
> Good luck.  It's a shame management and IT can't seem to understand that
> the ROI for such a change will never approach zero from the west, and the
> only reason for such a change is to spend someone elses money to make an
> individual, or group of individuals, look intelligent.  :-(
>
> Reminds me of many of us who can't figure out the economics of pricing;
> thus figure when the demand curve is shifted to the east, prices go down.
> Lord, protect others from our ignorance!  :-)
>
> Bill
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* ROporter@...
> *To:* u2-users@...
> *Date:* 1/24/2012 8:18 AM
> *Subject:* [U2] FYI - Another UV shop going away...
>
>> Just FYI,
>>
>> Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering
>> from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house
>> maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab from
>> Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com).  The in-house system was
>> originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse
>> system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and
>> maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated faxing,
>> connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL&  Sybase, some GUI (where it made sense),
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly...
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java
>> Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst
>> Laboratory Information Services
>> Ochsner Health System
>>
>>
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[Bobby Worley-3]

This is sad news.   I was in on the initial implementation of the Lab
Force LIS at Ochsner in New Orleans so many years ago.  It was a very
fun, challenging project - and I'm proud to see that the product has
held out so well after all this time.  

Glenn Luedke is a very good friend of mine, even though we haven't
worked together in years. he was my first boss/PM at Lab Force in 1985
(dating myself now).   The last time we worked together was around 2000.
I hope he is doing well.

Bob Worley
Coburn Supply Co



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Subject: [U2] FYI - Another UV shop going away...

Just FYI,
 
Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house
maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab
from Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com).  The in-house system was
originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse
system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and
maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated
faxing, connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL & Sybase, some GUI (where it
made sense), etc.
 
Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly...
 
Robert
 
 
 
 
Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java
Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst
Laboratory Information Services
Ochsner Health System
 
 
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[Charles Stevenson-2]

Lab Force was my own intro to PI & MV.  1981-83.
When I started the office was 2 adjacent suites in the Dallas Best
Western Hotel next to Love Field.
The room air conditioner just barely handled the Prime 400.
Jerry advertized for someone with lab experience & who knew Fortran.

My lab experience:  No veins were poked.  It involved searching for what
neutrinos are made of. (I failed to find the answer, in case you were
wondering.  But "Nutrin-O" would be a good name for a dog food or
breakfast cereal.)

Fortran: After I'd been at Lab Force for a while, I asked about that.  
Jerry said cuz it was sort of like Pick Basic.  That's quite true.  
Especially when compared to, say, driving forklifts.

cds

On 1/24/2012 1:19 PM, Bobby Worley wrote:

> This is sad news.   I was in on the initial implementation of the Lab
> Force LIS at Ochsner in New Orleans so many years ago.  It was a very
> fun, challenging project - and I'm proud to see that the product has
> held out so well after all this time.
>
> Glenn Luedke is a very good friend of mine, even though we haven't
> worked together in years. he was my first boss/PM at Lab Force in 1985
> (dating myself now).   The last time we worked together was around 2000.
> I hope he is doing well.
>
> Bob Worley
> Coburn Supply Co
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Porter
> Just FYI,
>
> Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering
> from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house
> maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab
> from Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com).  The in-house system was
> originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse
> system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and
> maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated
> faxing, connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL&  Sybase, some GUI (where it
> made sense), etc.
>
> Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java
> Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst
> Laboratory Information Services
> Ochsner Health System
>

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