Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: another xDT file format and BC Canada

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:04:53PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Could GNUmed export a GNUmed patient while using the same format as was 
> used in the practice management system (PMS)'s own export?

Surely, that isn't too difficult at all.

> This would enable a workflow in which (despite that patients would  
> normally be created by the Medical Office Assistant (MOA) in the PMS and 
> exported, and then imported if they did not already exist in GNUmed, else 
> navigated to, optionally with the updating of contact information) it 
> could *also* be possible that if I created patients on-call in GNUmed and 
> tasked the MOA (using waitlist) to create and bill them, the MOA could do 
> this/

That would work, yes.

> It would only require the PMS to be willing to import a patient and to 
> check against already-existence,

I'd be very careful in proposing that to them. Often closed
source vendors are paranoid about *im*porting things into
their system as they feel that may open them to claims of
litigation due to things beyond their control.

I'd also try to complete the easy step first.

> and also to not confuse the files, as 
> could be achieved by the above naming system?

yes

Karsten
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