Re: [Gnumed-devel] Open Source Health Informatics, London, 30th Sep 2010

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Jim Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2010-08-14, at 12:09 PM, Jim Busser wrote:
>
>> there seems no provision in what is currently available in BC CA to get this
>>       [GNUmed-generated internal request id]
>> back with the results. So with GNUmed already having (in lab_requests table) 
>> a pk, the only purpose of another unique internal column is where it can be 
>> passed out *and* returned with the lab test result, right?
>
> Just to point out that HL7 does seem to provide for this, as ORC 002, it is 
> just that it is not yet used in BC Canada.

 greaaat :)  then there's no hope of pre-creating a clin.lab_request
and being able to find it again.  _at all_.  is there? :)

 about the only thing you can do therefore, if you do want to match
things up, is to have that separate table (indicating gnumed-initiated
queries), and then have the praxis admin do manual matching of queries
to data-imports in clin.lab_request once they're in.  pain in the
neck, but better than a kick in the teeth.

 l.