| DESCRIPTION |
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| The Food and Drug Administration classifies this software as |
| a medical device. As such, it may not be changed in any way. |
| Modifications to this software may result in an adulterated |
| medical device under 21CFR820, the use of which is considered |
| to be a violation of US Federal Statutes. |
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This file holds the various retention policies available
to the storage subsystem. They come in two varieties: user-definable, and
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business.
User-definable retention policies can be created and mapped to artifact
descriptors, to serve as intrinsic retention policies. They can be
inactivated, or "logically deleted", but only if no artifact descriptors
are pointing to them. They can never be physically deleted, since there
are artifacts that still point to the old retention policies, and we need
to keep the historical record of retention policies that have been
applied to this artifact over time.
| Property of the US Government. |
Business retention policies are designed to be called by business code
for certain patients (e.g., Agent Orange retention policy, Employee
retention policy, etc.). These retention policies will be installed with
the patch and can be "replaced" with updated versions, but not deleted,
since business logic will presumably expect to find them.
| No permission to copy or redistribute this software is given. |
| Use of unreleased versions of this software requires the user |
| to execute a written test agreement with the VistA Imaging |
| Development Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, |
| telephone (301) 734-0100. |
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