> > > MediNet provided info about their uncoded ASCII reports (see below) > >> and are mailing me their paper HL7 documentation. While I await what > >> type of server-based connection they might enable, I am thinking to > >> download their Windows-only visual basic client for the clinic. > >If that client can save to files on the hard drive that > >alleviates the immediate need to write our own client. Just > >dump the files to disk and run the GnuMed importer on them. > > It would require that I put in place a Windows machine (the client is > Windows-only). It might suffice to run some sort of Windows emulator on a Linux box. This might eventually even be scripted to run unattended writing to ...
> In order to position the saved files in order that the > server can use them, would it be recommended to: ... a directory on the host linux file system. > If as a result you have an EMR depending on a Windows desktop machine > to keep running, is it a bad idea to have office personnel using that > machine i.e. the desktop should be dedicated to serve the server? Alternatively one could use a lowly scrap machine to get this done. It might be so slow office staff isn't tempted to (ab) use it ;-) > And is the proper *long-term* solution to get a client written, so > that one's gnumed server can get the files? Surely, that's the "nice" solution ... We need to be pragmatic, too, however. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
