We've done similar things before to move patients between HIS systems. It involved scripting that every few minutes (or more or less frequently) would:
1. Run a report in the first system (LSS) of the patients registered in LSS since the last report was run. 2. Parse the report and appropriately register the patients in the second system (Meditech). There are issues as to preventing double registrations, picking physicians from a list, preventing duplicate medical record numbers and ensuring 7x24 operation which we can elaborate on if you wish. Rich McNeil Boston Software Systems 866 653 5105 www.bostonworkstation.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Green, Ben Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Talk] Real-Time Scripting Got any advice? We currently run a daily batch script in client server that downloads appointments from our LSS database and then creates a pov short registration in our Meditech system. We do this so that our physicians in our offices can use the hospital's Dictaphone system for dictation and transcriptionists can transcribe and attach the report to the reg account number so that it appears in EMR. And it works great! Our Medical Records Department has implemented Dictaphone's EWS system for hospital docs. This is a voice recognition dictating system that allows the doc to dictate, edit and esign immediately. This is apparently working well within the hospital setting because these patients are registered prior to being seen so the account number always exists at the point of dictation and it can flow directly to EMR. If for some reason the account number does not exist at the time of the dictation, then the note becomes a "temp" report and has to be manually merged which really defeats the purpose. But that rarely happens and MR feels that it works great, too! Medical records would now like to implement this EWS system in our physician offices which will require a real-time transfer of appointment data from LSS to create a registration in Meditech to attach the dictation to. Our current daily batch process would cause the notes to become dreaded "temp" reports so it is not a solution. The issues I see for trying to do a real-time script are rather extensive. So, does it make sense to attempt to create a BWS solution for this or see if LSS and MT can create a background interface to do the job? Is anyone out there using BWS for any similar scenarios that are close to 'real-time'? Thanks. Ben Green Augusta Medical Center (540)-332-5548 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
