This is just an off-the-cuff suggestion, but you might create an STD PATIENT file pointing to file 2 containing the correct demographic data (and suitably protect it), rather like a shadow password file.
I think I'll leave it at. My concerns about trying to retrofit VistA with new features like this are well known. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand." --G. Polya ("How to Solve It") ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members