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Palm-PK22Patient-0.10
/ Palm::PK22Patient

NAME

Palm::PK22Patient -- interface to the PatientKeeper patient database

SYNOPSIS

use Palm::PDB;
use Palm::PK22Patient;

$pdb = new Palm::PDB;
$pdb->Load("/mypalmsyncdir/backup/PK22-PatientDB.pdb");

# Manipulate records in $pdb

$pdb->Write("myotherfile.pdb");

DESCRIPTION

Palm::PK22Patient -- interface to the PatientKeeper patient database

PatientKeeper is a Palm OS program for physician tracking of hospital patients. Much of this data is stored in the Palm PDB file PK22-PatientDB.pdb, which is backed up when the Palm is synced to the base computer. This perl module is for manipulation of such data.

An example program, PK22toCSV.pl, is included. This program converts PK22Patient data to a CSV file.

KNOWN PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS

Only interfaces with the Patient database, not the other PatientKeeper data.

This is ALPHA software. If it corrupts or destroys your data, do not be surprised. Under no circumstances should you trust data touched by this program to be trustworthy for clinical decision making. (There now, our malpractice carrier is smiling again :).

CREDITS

This is an add-on module for the Coldsync p5-Palm modules. If you find bugs, first make sure you have the latest version of Palm::PDB. Try http://cvs.coldsync.org for this.

AUTHOR

William Herrera <wherrera@skylightview.com>