Walter
OK, for patient details IME there are 2 ways:
1) batch- every xxyy mins/hours the other system produces a message to you with all changed records.
2) Real-time Push- every time patient details are entered/changed or a patient is admitted/discharged, a message gets generated.
3) Real-time Pull- every time your app views/uses patient details, you request an update if the details are more than xxyymins/hours stale.
IMHO it is hard to do without 3) - patients drop in unexpectedly and attend clinic, you want to be sure without fail that your details are current and something does not sneak through.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
