Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics gnumed to oscar

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 03:17:13AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >I was thinking that as long oscar was initialized with a high  
> >enough primary key start number,
Down that road peril lies. Attaching meaning to a
supposed-to-be-meaningless number.

> >it could coexist with the gnumed demographics, so there's no  
> >messing around with oscar side
> >external id tables or columns for pk_identity.
Not sure where this would be needed. If GNUmed piggybacks on
OSCAR it better (I think) not make OSCAR remember GNUmed state.

I think you might be referring to the case where GNUmed is
the "master demographics provider". I would then still do it this way:

- have demographics be input into GNUmed
- make GNUmed drive OSCAR and auto-add GNUmed demographics
  into OSCAR tables (may be needed to use billing)
- take the OSCAR generated patient ID and attach it to the
  demographics stored in GNUmed

IOW, a little going back and forth.

> I am missing something... if you were wanting to drive demographics  
> from GNUmed then why could GNUmed not write its dem.identity.pk into  
> the Oscar demographic table?
It might be that OSCAR makes certain assumptions about the
ID. It shouldn't but perhaps it does.

> Or were you taking the view that someone  
> may have already been running Oscar
A reasonable assumption IMO. But perhaps not feasible ?

Karsten
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