Visits.Out

The VISITS.OUT format is a '|' (ASCII character 124) delimited format and is used for transferring information relating to the Medicare items recorded during a consultation. This information can be used by Medical Director's own 'Consultation Viewer' utility or by third parties. For more information including a full specification of this format, refer to VISITS.OUT Format.

ADDRESS.IN Format

  • Address Book
  • File Formats
  • Technical Reference

    The ADDRESS.IN file format is used to import specialist information into the Clinical Address Book. This is done using the Import utility found in the MedicalDirector Maintenance suite.

    This file is an ASCII text file with each entry on a single line terminated by a Carriage return/Line feed pair (ASCII 13 + ASCII 10). Fields can be separated by the pipe character "|" or can be enclosed in double quotation marks and separated by commas.

    Item Field Size
    TITLE 4
    FIRSTNAME 20
    SURNAME/NAME 30
    SALUTATION 20
    SPECIALTY 25
    ADDRESS LINE 1 40
    ADDRESS LINE 2 40
    ADDRESS LINE 3 20
    POSTCODE 4
    EMAIL 40
    PHONE 14
    FAX 14
    PHONE - AFTER HOURS 14
    PHONE - MOBILE 14
    PAGER 14
    COMMENT/SPECIAL INTERESTS No limit
  • The Import feature checks the demographics for duplications and merges any that are found. This check is based on Surname, FirstName and Specialty.
  • The field sizes are the same length as those in Clinical. If the data is too long for the fields, it is truncated.
  • If a field has no value, it must be left blank (not omitted).

    IMM.OUT Format

    The Immunisations Output file format is used to send immunisation data to third-party software packages. The file uses a (|) delimited format as per the following abbreviated example: ExternalID|Patient:SURNAME|Patient:FIRSTNAME|Patient:TITLE|Patient:ADDRESS|...|Sequence|Batch There is no prescribed limitation on the amount of data that can be sent in each field. The field sizes below are based on the size of the fields in Clinical databases and may change at any time without notification. The following table lists the field names and number of characters currently used in the Clinical databases. Each record is terminated by a CR-LF.

    There are two different IMM.OUT file formats available;

  • You can select which format you wish to use (Default or Generic) via the Advanced Link Settings of Clinical.