Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed release

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:15:41PM +1100, syan tan wrote:

> Can I suggest someway of knowing where in the chronology of notes 
> a particular point  the episode view is, e.g. like a button , jump
> to selected episode, which scrolls the chronology view to the current
> episode view ? 
I am not sure I understand your suggestion, Syan. Could you
expand a bit on that ?

> Anyone have any opinion about whether import/merge-on-demand is better
> than mass import ?
I think both have their merit depending on what is needed.
One thing is certain, though: merge-on-demand is technically
(quite a bit) more, well, demanding.

I would favour an approach where the user can say "import
data of patient X now". The legacy data of that patient is
exported from the legacy system, imported into GNUmed and
removed from the legacy system.

> Mass import can take quite a long time, maybe it
> would be faster to recode in C or C++;
Using SQL-level COPY should suffice.

> import on demand means more
> space, because the old database has to exist alongside the new database,
> and there may be a need for merging / update if the people keep using
> an old application "just in case"
That's the "more demanding" part I was referring to above.

> Any opinions which features are worth pursuing ? 
I'd think the ex-/import on demand is useful.

I'd think even if we did re-export of data for the legacy
app we might have problems getting that data back into the
legacy app.

Karsten
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