Let's say you sync both computers and provider takes laptop out to see patients with exact duplicate of main computer in office. While gone, the following happens:
Main computer adds:
Patient A 2001
Patient B 2002
Patient C 2003
Laptop remote adds:
Patient D 2001
Patient E 2002
Patient F 2003
The provider then comes back and syncs the data to the main computer. This is what would end up on both computers:
Patient A 2001
Patient B 2002
Patient C 2003
Patient D 2004
Patient E 2005
Patient F 2006
The sync program recognizes that the database of the main computer takes precedence over the remote computer being synced. The program will see that the ID#s assigned to the new patients on the laptop remote are not available on the main database and will assign each patient the next available number in order of how they were entered on the remote database.
