On 5-Feb-08, at 10:37 PM, James Busser wrote:
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FWIW, I think this python client (done this way) is
all wrong. Which is why I haven't replied. I'm working on trying
something else.
Your experience inside a hospital suggests that directly connecting
to
the backend is going to be problematic.
I'd like to see a REST client and a REST backend.
I *would* suggest that we not make connectivity from the hospital a
first priority, for a couple of reasons:
1) my office is across the street from the hospital
2) it is not impossible that I could get the hospital to unblock
some ports, from at least aa couple of computer locations in the
hospital
3) the machine I would use as a server has no competing need to host
port 443, the server's purpose woould be purely to support the aZEMR
(GNUmed) so if the GNUmed client would (via config file) go out
through the hospital's proxy on port 443 and that would then, on
hitting the server, get redirected to PostgreSQL, maybe that would
solve any need if #1 and #2 above would not.
The bigger challenge is for everyone else. To make this a product it
has to "just work".
Strategically (or at least tactically) the earlier interest is
identifying how we might get the Excelleris XML-wrapped HL7 lab data
into the GNUmed backend. It sounded like Richard might assist us
with that in a couple of weeks.
OK, I can do this now. What I need help with is where to put the data.
Is it possible for you to provide me with pseudo code which takes the
Excelleris HL7 data and inserts it into the correct table?
So for the pseudo code assume you have the HL7 parsed and make up
variables with HL7 ish names.
ie
insert into foo (firstName .....) values (PID.patientFirstName....)
I gather REST has more to do with your contemplation of a full Java
and/or browser-based alternative to a Python client? Dunno whether
the following usefully captures the essence:
http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html
Yeah, it accomplishes much more though. All of the business logic
stays in one place and you can have any client you want.
Dave
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