| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
1). Currently there are problems being reported with facilities trying
The new method will transmit several hundred entries at a time. In this
manner, File #1020.2, can be built a little at a time.
2). When a new patient is entered, a MUMPS cross-reference is
executed which calls a PPP routine that adds the patient to PPP.
PPP then tries to find any visits to other facilities by trying to access
the MPD CD-ROM. If access cannot be obtained, an error bulletin is
generated.
Since the Prescription Practices Daily Batch Routine [PPP BATCH] option
to create the FOREIGN FACILITY CROSS REFERENCE file (#1020.2). The
is scheduled to run nightly to gather new patient data, the action taken
by the SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER (#.09) field's cross-reference is not
needed.
problem cannot be traced to either Pharmacy Prescription Practices or
Minimal Patient Dataset. The current process of extracting the Pharmacy
Prescription Practices data from the Minimal Patient Dataset CD-ROM
consists of transmitting all the selected social security numbers to the
CD-ROM, and then waiting for the visit data on each to be re-collected by
the PPP program before the file can be built.
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