Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: rschedule

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:38:42AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> - extract the master Oscar id
> - pass it, via XML-RPC, to notify GNUmed that a patient has been  
> selected, and cause GNUmed to test whether the patient exists and  
> accordingly move to them, or to create them from the Oscar  
> demographic info

...

> I think the above would be much tidier than to aim to store in  
> Oscar's appointment table (or any other Oscar table) any external  
> references. I believe GNUmed already has a place in its backend that  
> could be borrowed to store the Oscar patient id.

Not so much "borrowed" but much rather *designed* for
precisely that sort of thing.

The tables are

 dem.enum_ext_id_types
 dem.lnk_identity2ext_id

(yes, they should be named "trait" instead of "ext_id")

The cIdentity business class handles such external IDs.
Our patient searcher can search on it.

Karsten
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