Indeed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:28 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] What is the best (automated) way to update existing patient records?
Well, I have spend a LONG and somewhat frustrating day working of mapping of data from our PM to VistA patients records. Who would have ever thought that such a "simple" project would be so complicated. But Murphy says that when it can get messed up, it will. A classic example is my wife, Marcia. Someone put her into the PM as Marsha. So how should the PM data impact VistA data? The PM is technically the source of data, as new patients are put in, and patients instruct the front staff that the address is wrong, or correct misspellings to their name etc. But the front staff also appears to be too busy to be paying proper attention to entering data in correctly! I have been exploring using soundex searches from the Kernel function, and have written a lookup routine that returns results as: doubtful, possible, probably, complete matches. I start with a strict search, and then progressively loosen up (i.e. drop the middle name, then drop all but the first 3 letters of the first name, then drop all but the first 1 letter of the first name, etc. etc.) What a nightmare.... Kevin On 1/25/06, J. Michael Towry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cameron Schlehuber wrote "Using the Practice Management assigned ID and > storing that ID as the Health Record Number (HRN) in VistA is EXACTLY the > right thing to do! Some of the patches to VOE (soon to come out as Class I > patches to VistA FOIA) are based on how Indian Health Service uses the HRN." > > Does this indicate that there may be some utility forthcoming with VOE that > will automate Vista patient record updates from practice management > system-generated CSV files (as can be done now for adds)? This seems like > very basic and essential functionality for integrating Vista in a small > office setting that already has a practice management system in use. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
