Now not to take away from the last few stand up jokes, but it is time to get back to the main point of this thread... Reporting on how things are going to FAP, so in the words of John Cleese: "And now for something completely different."
Bert,
I was talking to my brohter Mike, he himself and program debugger and engineer by trade. He is currently working at a company that makes the ultimate version of a demographics page and relational database. It is a custom program for folks who have to track Humana Resources (Freudian slip there?) type data. So like I said imagine the ultimate in demographics data including what benefits, which family members do and don't belong with any given benefit you get the picture...
So Let's talk about a problem we had with FAP. We have a number of good old Italian families. Now what does ever Italian male patrioarch have to have, a first born son, and with most of these first born sons, come two family member with "Identical Names" right down to the middle intitial sometime. So for a great example, we have two patients father and son, (and we almost got Grandpa too!!!) Michael J. Pizzano (the last name has been changed to protect the innocent and make for a bad joke).
So the younger son went into AC at chart number of approx. 525 and dad got dragged into the practice by mom, (Go get your cholesterol check and finally see Dr Blake!!! Or Else!) months later at chart number 900 or so. But try and I might, no matter how I try to highlight either of the two names, the scan always goes into the son with the lower chart number. FAP needs a better way of differenciating who is who...
Well now back to Brother Michael (my Michael, not the Pizzano's). His program also set up data by people and can even TIE families together (HINT, HINT Jon and AC) but the very first layer of the program the first level of data is the EMP number, thier version of a chart number, for employee number and now no matter what no matter how many different people with the same name go in, with the program always looking for that EMP or Chart number it will always go to the correct chart or file no matter what (as long as human error is not the case).
It is my brother humble but professional opinion that Special Ed probably tapped into the names first or just the names and that the chart number is not the first and most important level and determiner of who is who. The first Table I believe you guys know it as... So Special Ed needs to make sure that the chart number and not the name is the first highest up the food chain table...
Bert, does this make sense? Can you guys do this and tune the data post facto to correct for this???
Welcome to being a software developer Bert. Now you know how Jon feels...
