Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Mirth channels and HL7 import for the GNUmed project - test source message

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > 2) The Mirth Server processes the message, decodes it, and stores  
> > the data within the message in the GNUMed database
> 
> stores *a copy of* the data in the GNUmed database. Mirth does also  
> maintain a copy in its own database. The Mirth database might nicely  
> permit repurposing of its content for example providing the patient a  
> nicely formatted PDF of certain results though I did not yet look at  
> that. I suppose Mirth might more easily than GNUmed produce a copy of  
> (or a subset of) a patients' results if another doctor who was not  
> using GNUmed wished to have an importable HL7 version of a patient''s  
> results sent to them.

That's a good use case for keeping a copy in the Mirth database. Mirth
itself then needs backups just like GNUmed does.

Karsten
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