Re: [Gnumed-devel] test requests and importing, BC (CA) anticoag pilot

[J Busser]

At 8:00 PM +0100 3/1/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > MediNet provided info about their uncoded ASCII reports (see below)
> >  and are mailing me their paper HL7 documentation. While I await what
> >  type of server-based connection they might enable, I am thinking to
> >  download their Windows-only visual basic client for the clinic.
> If that client can save to files on the hard drive that
> alleviates the immediate need to write our own client. Just
> dump the files to disk and run the GnuMed importer on them.

It would require that I put in place a Windows machine (the client is 
Windows-only). In order to position the saved files in order that the 
server can use them, would it be recommended to:

1) automate the Windows desktop to write the files onto the server or
2) create a shared directory on the Windows desktop from which the 
server would copy (and the server would, after a successful copy, 
delete the files from the desktop)

If as a result you have an EMR depending on a Windows desktop machine 
to keep running, is it a bad idea to have office personnel using that 
machine i.e.  the desktop should be dedicated to serve the server?

And is the proper *long-term* solution to get a client written, so 
that one's gnumed server can get the files?