I went through this a few months ago and have a routine for it. It had a problem with loading SSN and I need to revisit and be sure I have that set correctly. Will be glad to share it.
What fields do you wish to populate? How will you generate the data? Mine came from FileMan, therefore I had control over the ASCII format. thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:46 AM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Importing legacy patient data > > Yes, someone posted about doing this recently (I can't remember who. > Try searching the archives for 'import' and 'registration'). I assume > you are talking about importing demographic information only. > > I think that you save the file in a comma-delimited file. Then use > the fileman import facility. One key point is that certain fields are > required in the patient file (#200)--such as patient type, veteran > status etc. You have to make sure you have data for this field in > each record you upload, or the record will be rejected. > > I did this another (much harder) way by writing custom code. It was a > "good learning experiance." I uploaded about 70,000 demographic > entries this way. > > Kevin > > > > On 9/28/05, Mike Schrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone having any success with batch importing legacy patient data? I > > want to start with minimal patient demographics from a text, csv or xls > > file which I can, with a lot of manual editing, get out of my present > > practice management system. I've been following the postings on Vista > > imaging for scanning in paper charts, but, I need to get the patients in > > first and the imaging instructions are a bit too technical for me. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > discussions, > > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
