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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:14:01AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> 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?

We don't have code to do that. It would be desirable. It is
tedious to do, however.

> Would that be useful to add to options in EMR > Export. ?

Sure !

> Relatedly, is there a method of then reimporting that patient?  

Given the above had been implemented this would be a tad
easier.

> Presumably (hopefully) postgres would throw an exception on account of 
> duplication of the patient unique ID

it would

> unless the import method would 
> assign a new patient ID, and preserve this across the related records 
> being imported across the other tables.

It would have to, yes.

> If it is work to create an import method to support the above,

It would be quite a bit of work. A nice mini-project.

Karsten
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