could someone please explain to me why HCN do not allow you to get at
YOUR data. They don't own it, you do, so why the f... do they stop you
getting at it???? and why do you let them???
N
Tony Eviston wrote:
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
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