Yes, and this is what I have done. The problem comes with the time needed to interface it. I have created an expect script that helps. We have ~10 yrs worth of data. And many patients have their info stored in different accounts depending on whether they were a Worker's Comp case, or regular insurance or medicaid etc etc. And many patients have similar names. So even when a person looks up a patient, they usually have to look at a list of options and pick the correct one, or try a few.
Initially, I was printing out all patients for a given doctor for a three month period. Then I could have all the data to work with, and I was usually able to sort the issues out. But with our 58 MHz processor, printing out just three months worth to a disk file could easily take 12-24 hrs. I will probably have to go back to this method later. Right now we do daily backups (it still has valid financial data on it.) The backups kick my process off. Maybe later I can do it over longer time periods without getting booted. Thanks so much everyone. Kevin p.s. Marc, I think you are knowledgable about aix. I may ask you to help me lift user restrictions later. One time I got a message that I had exceeded my user limit for disk space when writing out the notes. The system still had enough storage. It just wasn't going to give me more than a specified amount. Thanks On 8/31/05, Aylesworth Marc A Ctr AFRL/IFSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You said you could print to a file, this would get you a parsable file > would > it not where you could look at the format and figure out how to insert it > into the Vista DB could you not. > > Thanks > > Marc Aylesworth > > C3I Associates > > AFRL/IFSE > > Joint Battlespace Infosphere Team > > 525 Brooks Rd > > Rome, NY 13441-4505 > > Tel:315.330.2422 > > Fax:315.330.7009 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 4:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Re: COBOL advise needed > > Thank you all for your responses. > > I don't have access to the source files (that I know of). Thus I > don't know anything about how the database is laid out. > > Hmmm.... I think this may be more than I want to get into, since no > one said "here just run this kiddie script, and it will fall in your > lap." LOL. > > I think I'll wait and see if I can talk the group into paying for > someone who knows what they are doing later on. > > Thanks > Kevin > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
