This sound suspiciously like the number of patients I manually imported from my old database. And the 2916 would be the number of patients added since using the proper registration menu options.
Now, how to fix the problem without causing more problems...
Kevin
On 1/11/06, Kevin Toppenberg <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I have come up with some clues.
First, the PATIENT (.02) field of 8925 (TIU DOCUMENT) is not a pointer to the PATIENT file, but instead points to 9000001 file (PATIENT/IHS), which in turn points to the PATIENT file.
For the missing entries, I have a corresponding gap in my PATIENT/IHS file. This prevents a connection back to the PATIENT file, and consequently to the patient name.
So I need to figure out why some patients are in the database without enteries in the PATIENT/IHS file (and how to fix this).
Also, I think that some of the VistA code short-circuits this loop, because the patient name WILL show up in certain places, but not others.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin
On 1/10/06, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:We have a physician that is leaving our group, and he wants to have a copy of the notes he wrote exported from VistA. So I thought it would be cool to try out a project I have had in my mind for awhile, namely create an interlinked HTML version of all his notes. That way he doesn't have to install VistA at his new site, and browsing the notes is as easy as using a web browser.
Well, I have written the code that writes a progress note out to HTML. No problem there.
But the problem I am having is that the patient's name is not coming out of fileman in about 1 of 20 times.
Here is code to show this. I have to overwrite the actual names with fake data. But trust me that only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
GTM>for i=1000:10:2000 write i,"-->",$$GET1^DIQ(8925,i_",",.02),!
1200-->john,doe
1210-->john,doe
1220-->john,doe
1230-->john,doe
1240-->john,doe
1250-->john,doe
1260-->
1270-->
1280-->john,doe
1290-->john,doe
1300-->john,doe
1310-->john,doe
1320-->john,doe
1330-->
1340-->
1350-->john,doe
1360-->john,doe
1370-->john,doe
1380-->john,doe
1390-->john,doe
1400-->john,doe
1410-->john,doe
1420-->
1430-->john,doe
1440-->john,doe
1450-->
1460-->
1470-->john,doe
1480-->john,doe
1490-->john,doe
1500-->
1510-->john,doe
Notice that several of these have NO patient name output. In fact of my progress notes IEN 1-5000, I can find that there are 188 such null entries.
Is this simply because this data is not stored in the database? No!
GTM>w ^TIU(8925,1450,0) <---------- looking at IEN 1450, that didn't show up above.
1305^18177^^^7^^3031022^3031022^^9 <--------------- 2nd piece is patient IEN
GTM>w ^DPT(18177,0)
DOE,JANE^F^2840203^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 <----------- patient name is there (I changed to jane doe)
GTM>w ^TIU(8925,1470,0) <-------------- looking at IEN 1470, that DID show up above
1305^3111^^^7^^3030915^3030915^^50
GTM>w ^DPT(3111,0)
PICKELL,MARY M^F^2331019^^^^^^415541420^^^^^^^^^^^1 <-------------- patient name seems the same (I changed name)
What is going on here? I can't see any difference in the data between those that show up and those that don't. When I do a Fileman inquire to the record, on the non-showing-up notes ( i.e. #1450), it just prints out the IEN. But on the normal notes (i.e. #1470), it prints out the patient name.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Kevin
