General discussion

Electronic Health Records are brought up in this post http://drupal.org/node/47402 - I'm wondering if there have been any further ideas on the matter...

I'm a graduate student in social work and public health in California, US. I first started using Drupal about two years ago, and am still amazed at what it does - even for such a novice as myself. Everywhere I go, I see applications for its use.

The database system in the Mental Health program where I am working/interning is so old that it's DOS based. We have such a need for something to keep track of client data that will enable case managers to enter in client data for records that automatically generates billing sheets for Medical (Medicaid) that match the notes (and ensures all required fields are input properly). There are a few other important tasks that it needs to do, but this one is primary.

Basically, what we're talking about is an Electronic Health Record. At its most basic level, case managers would need to have access to their clients, clerical staff would need access to all clients for data entry, and program managers would need to have access to all clients, and be able to assign/reassign cases to different CM's, as well as generate various kinds of reports that help assess CM productivity, client load, etc. Down the line, it might make sense for primary care providers (or other specialty care providers such as board and care operators) to have roles assigned to them, so they can see certain parts of a client record (designated by program managers) and can also add notes about the client that case managers can see. For example, a psychiatrist might update/change medications - and would be able to add his/her notes while looking at certain parts of that client's record. In addition, we'd want to build in functionality that would allow for associating scanned paperwork - or some other format of keeping track of paperwork electronically - to each client record. This is probably way too much information - but I want to try and give you an idea of what I'm thinking.

I'm writing from Cambridge Community Television (http://www.cctvcambridge.org) and we are facing a difficult decision about handling our media and video podcasts and blogs. This stems from a conference based around migrating public access centers from their traditional television channels onto the internet as both technology and social trends change.

The trend we are facing in public access and community media is that more and more of our community members are producing media from their homes (aka blog, vlog, podcast style) and not the traditional method of field production we have been teaching. Our role of teaching technology and providing access to technology is changing, but we intend to remain as a distribution point for our local media.

The new question we are tryng to sort out is where does it make the most sense to store our locally produced media? Does it make the most sense to store media on our own paid web hosting space (we can always pay for services with no Bandwidth meter or cap) or to let the horde of third party (free and commercial) video sites do the storage? We use Drupal as our CMS and there are lots of modules that handle these features in the repository like the video, podcast and acidfree modules, but why should we implement them on our site rather than take advantage of the free (for now) services that exist out there. Here are all the concepts we are trying to keep in consideration:

I just installed Drupal for the first time last night and immediately have some questions. I searched around on the forums and between reading through posts and the online handbook I think I have an idea of how to accomplish my goals. I would like to "ask the experts" first, however.

I'm a PHP web developer who is tired of building custom content managers by hand for every website I create! However, I definitely don't like the tight integration between frontend and backend content that Drupal uses by default. Instead, I would like a separate website altogether that handles the backend/admin functionality. This is how I currently build my applications:

Frontend/Public website:
www.mywebsite.com

Backend/Admin website:
admin.mywebsite.com

I should point out that the "admin.mywebsite.com" actually sits within a separate web space on the server. In other words, it has it's own Apache virtual server entry and is NOT located within the root of the "www" domain. So in order to accomplish this setup with Drupal, it sounds like i would need to:

1. Install Drupal in my "www" web space
2. Customize my individual HTML pages to use the PHPTemplate (big learning curve here?)
3. Disable all login and admin functions for this Drupal installation
4. Install Drupal in my "admin" web space
5. Setup this installation according to the needs of the website
6. Make sure both installations are using the same database (set in the settings.php file)

Hi, I have managed to theme the user profile page by using template.php to call a function and user_profile.tpl.php. This was explained in the handbooks. I tried doing it with an include in the page.tpl.php, but that made every user page still show the information fro the current user. I'm trying to make a social networking site (but with a difference), and I'm not sure how I go about theming the profile edit page. I want it to be like the page you goto first when u log into myspace. I've added all the profile fields I need, but how do I start customizing the layout?

Hello all,

I am testing out several different open source CMS frameworks, and I'm rather clueless, to say the least. If you're feeling generous, can you give a lost soul some assistance? Quite frankly, I don't think I even understand the core basics of a CMS, so if someone could give me a crash course overview (which I am trying to give myself, albeit badly), I would be most grateful. The following things puzzle me to no end:

I am new to CMS projects, ergo, I don't really know what's going on. I've got a trial version of Macromedia Contribute and I've downloaded bitweaver and Drupal to see if I can cobble together some sort of basic website. Unfortunately, I don't even know what I need to do. Looking at the system requirements for the latter two, it seems I need access to a server? As I am but a lowly peon , my superiors are discussing that possibility later today. Do I need server access (password, etc.) to run a CMS framework? Do I need a database at hand to manipulate things? Moreover, how the hell do I actually do anything with this? I was expecting an .exe file to unpack the whole thing for me, which I know how to do since I'm not totally inept, just mostly.

The most basic of questions: How do I start? How do I do anything at all? I have a copy of the Drupal framework sitting on my hard drive and I have no idea as to how I ought to use it. Can my own PC function as a server? Do I even need a server? Wow, am I ever confused. I really need an idiot-proof tutorial, and perhaps I've started in the wrong place... Macromedia Contribute (what little of it I have used) seems to be the only option suitable for my skill set at the moment, and seeing as there may be others who have less expertise (if you can call it that) than I, I really do need a simple solution.

I would like to have a rotating banner ad, each request showing a different charity. I would configure which charities that appear. Ideally there would be integration in that users could contribute to different charities using a consistent interface, and there would be tracking of contributions and perhaps userpoints.

Can anybody recommend a module as a starting point? Donations module? The new (4.7) CVS version of banner module? Thanks