Re: [Health] Doubt about inserting people

[Luis Falcon]

Our pleasure having you in the team,  João !

Please don't hesitate to ask anything this mailing list, we'll be happy
to help (if we can :-) ).

All the best
Luis

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:59:00 +0000
João Martel <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Luis!
> 
> Thanks for your warm welcome ;)
> 
> Seems like everyone agrees on the use of Proteus.. As I'm a bit of a
> newbie, another user has already offered himself to help me. It's
> good to see a community of colaboration and worldwide partnership.
> 
> Best regards from Portugal, with respect and admiration
> 
> Your colleague
> 
> João
> 
> 2018-01-23 17:58 GMT+00:00 Luis Falcon <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi João !
> >
> > Thank you for your kind email, and welcome ! :)
> >
> > Let me answer inline...
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:38:46 +0000
> > João Martel <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for the work and effort you had in developing
> > > this amazing software!
> > >
> > > I have one important question:
> > >
> > > I am a practicing family physician and I am considering using your
> > > software for personal registration of my list of patients, and,
> > > who knows, in the future, proposing its utilisation in other
> > > platforms.
> > >
> > > I have a list of around 2000 patients, which is written in digital
> > > record. It would be very laborious for me to create people one by
> > > one in gnu health,
> > >
> > > Isn't there any way to make Gnu health read from an excel list or
> > > something like that and import the list of patients?
> > >  
> > Probably the best way is using Proteus, a library that allows you to
> > do non-interactive actions.
> >
> > There are also ways to import from CSV, but my experience is that
> > proteus is way more powerful and versatile.
> >
> > We can update the documentation with some simple script that does
> > the batch input of demographic information,
> >
> >
> > All the best
> > Luis
> >
> >
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> > Dr. Luis Falcon, M.D., BSc
> > President, GNU Solidario
> > GNU Health: Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
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