David Guest wrote: > One restriction at the moment with the HCN database is that progress > notes and letters are encrypted. This will be a problem for Jon since > his interest is in NLP (nosological linguistic programming :-D. Again I > understand the decrypter is available from HCN but for obvious reasons > they are a bit particular about who gets access.
David, The decryption utility is handicapped in that it won't do decryption incrementally - that is it does a full pass through the database every run and takes at least a few hours to do so, making it pretty useless for getting out the most recently entered data. The other handicap in bypassing the MD GUI to directly access the data is that one of the drug database fields is encrypted which means that you can return the list of drugs being taken by a patient but not the form/strength, so a typical returned dataset might look like this ALLOPURINOL half mane ASTRIX 100 1 mane ELOCON m.d.u. LIPITOR 1 nocte METOPROLOL TARTRATE 1 b.d. NORVASC 1 mane PANAMAX 2 q.i.d. p.r.n. which of course is of limited use in referrals, health summaries etc... It's a shame that HCN can't see any benefit in allowing their customers access the full data, thus unleashing the creativity of people like yourself to further advance general practice. Tony _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
