Re: [Gnumed-devel] wiki and manual maintenance

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:21:51PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Took a peek while mired in an office "move" from hell and other fun  
> stuff... good work!
Thanks, and ...

> I did tidy a few pages, and linked ExternalPatientImport to the page  
> DevelopmentReference
... thanks for looking.

> I noted that ExternalPatientImport does, at its bottom, say
> 
>       For technical details regarding implementation of the patient  
>   demographics interface see the source or the Developer Guide
> 
> ... though I think there is nothing in the guide. I can remove that  
> reference, or be sent a few lines that I can add to the Guide.
I took care of that.

> But either way, was the approach taken consistent with
> 
>       
> http://salaam.homeunix.com/bin/view/Gnumed/DevelRefMisc#AnchorDataImportersAPI
The approach outlined there is better suited for importing
data for a patient (which may happen to require creating the
patient, too). The external demographics import interface is
geared towards connecting concurrent applications with
patient demographics transfer (one way so far *evil grin*).

Karsten
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