Prescription Status Board

The Prescription Status Board is a single page app designed to be a client facing screen in the pharmacy waiting room. While the VetView Pharmacy Queue can be adapted to this purpose, it required constant monitoring and is a dedicated

The Pharmacy Kiosk Board app took approximately one week for the VetView team to develop to prototype levels.

Prescription Status Board Design

The inspiration for this screen, besides human pharmacies and other pharmacies who have implemented similar boards using database queries, was airport arrivals and departures boards.

The screen itself uses fully reactive resizing and automatic flipboard pagination to keep all of the data visible on any screen size.

You can also manually adjust the font size using CTRL++ in the browser window.

Development

This app was built using Grails and the VetView API to scrape read only data from the VetView database. The web page sends an auth token to the VetView server along with a GET request for prescriptions in specific statuses, and the VetView app sends the requested data in a JSON format that is interpreted by the page and then formatting.

The ZK index file uses common Bootstrap formatting and a CSS to allow for customization. The app is open source and is available on the VetView Bitbucket. (If you are a paying client and do not have access to the Bitbucket, contact VetView.)

Controllers in the background send and receive the data. The auth token is sent and received along with each request, so that a sign-in and authentication is not needed.

The app was built to be read only. It does not require a sign in, and if there is an error contacting the VetView server, it will automatically display a blank page until contact with the server is re-established. This means for hospitals that reboot their VetView server on a nightly basis, the only interaction needed with the Kiosk screen computer is confirming that the computer itself is turned on, logged into the network, and has the browser with the app loaded.

For the full source code, please see Setting up the Apps in Bitbucket.

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Most recent releases of VetView: Version 5.0.4 (Released 3/10/2025) and 4.2.10 Hotfix (2/28/2025)

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