[Gnumed-devel] Idea... cloning patients to facilitate GNUmed demo

[Jim Busser]

I think it could be useful to be able to demonstrate the evolution in  
a patient's record.

The idea is that the patient would start with a few past history  
items and one or two unattributed episodes but over time would have a  
more complex record but despite its complexity GNUmed will allow the  
fullness to be in the EMR tree while keeping it manageable in the  
problem list.

Exists there a method for the entirety of a single patient's record  
(but only that *single* patient's record) to be "dumped" from the  
database? Would that be useful to add to options in EMR > Export. ?

Relatedly, is there a method of then reimporting that patient?  
Presumably (hopefully) postgres would throw an exception on account  
of duplication of the patient unique ID unless the import method  
would assign a new patient ID, and preserve this across the related  
records being imported across the other tables. All other primary  
keys, despite that they had been dumped with these records, would all  
be replaced by newly-assigned (by the db) pks.

I would propose to name the original patient "one", clone them into  
"two", add to their EMR, export "two", reimport and rename as "three"  
and add to their EMR... you get the picture.

If it is work to create an import method to support the above, this  
same method could permit an exchange of patients between two praxes  
using the same db version of GNUmed. :-)