Hi Muthu, No worry - it is just developer's discussion :-)
Here I do have the same issue. A hospital here wants to have our care2x for researches but want to keep their own (historical) HIS up and running. Just for some view forms in a specific department they want link it with care2x that they can do some (complex) customary work. There are some specific issues to be solve but I am lucky to able this kind of transferring the data with an PDI job once a day by a script. ( will send you the pdi pattern if you want and if it would help you ) But exactly what you mention in your mail is the aim we all have. Flexibility and gerneric. Robert Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 19:00 +0530 schrieb Ap.Muthu: > Hi Robert, > > The field name can be what you suggested - what I put in was a little > generic. I certainly want you to be happy. > > In case there are hospitals that do not use the alt_pid field, keeping it > NULL would allow them to proceed. > Attempting to copy into alt_pid the value in pid if alt_pid is NULL would > bring in anomalies and clash with similar numbers in the alt_pid that were > not NULL in the first place. Hence the UNIQUEness for alt_pid would have to > wait till you decide how to use it when alt_pid is absent (multiple NULL > alt_pids should be able to exist). > > What is now in place is just a place holder. Please give it some thought as > to how hospitals starting anew entirely in Care2x would be able to use it > alongside with hospitals that intend to use Care2x for only a part of their > operations whilst relying on their own HIS for others. > > Regards, > Ap.Muthu > > > > > Hi Muthu, > > > > I am not so sure that it is really a legacy issue. Nearly all hospitals > > I've visited they have either their own HIS and want to use care2x from > > a specific point or they use it side-by-side. > > > > But in all cases they will continue their numbering format what is > > always historical based and care2x has to work with it and I do not > > think that they will change it one day. > > > > If it can be NULL in that way I have some doubts, but let see what it > > will bring for results from the reality. But the indexing of that table > > is not really funny. Better would be a unique key over pid, "alt_pid", > > the birth date, first name, last name and registration timestamp instead > > of having index for each column. > > > > That could have good benefits when this table will be joined afterwards > > with other tables (avoiding of full table scans). > > > > Robert > > > > > > Am Montag, den 01.11.2010, 07:47 +0530 schrieb Ap.Muthu: > >> Hi Robert, > >> > >> Isn't this more of a legacy issue. > >> Once the hospital is entirely on Care2x, it will not be necessary. > >> > >> This is quite useful if the patient is referred from another hospital. > >> > >> Rather than hospital_file_number, the field can be generic as alt_pid > >> NULL > >> This field should be optional and not null and not even unique. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ap.Muthu > >> > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Just out of experience.. and because I am doing that now again (as > >> > always)... > >> > > >> > ALTER TABLE `care_person` ADD `hospital_file_number` VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT > >> > NULL AFTER `pid` > >> > > >> > What do you think? Is it a major need and all of you have the need to > >> > place there somewhere existing and already used hospital file numbers? > >> > > >> > Then we will add it to the next care2x release. > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > Robert > >> > > >> > p.s. Is there any need of having a documentation or example file how to > >> > use tools like pentho's PDI to migrate existing datasets to care2x? > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Care2002-developers mailing list > Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers -- -- -------------------------------------------- CARE2X - free Integ Hospital Info System https://sourceforge.net/projects/care2002/ http://www.care2x.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
