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  • January 26, 2006 at 7:13 pm #48279
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      Hi cloverTechies,

      I like to hear from those of you implemented McKesson’s HMM to AdminRX integration. I know there are several hospitals have done this.

      Your feedback is very valuable.

      We are currently doing this integration.

      A few weeks ago FDB (first data bank) was downloaded to HMM test.

      It was started at 10:30 am and finished running at 10:44am.

      At 10:46 am, MFN’s were triggered by HMM and created 6600+ records.

      At 12:30 user entered an order in HMM.

      However the MFN’s were running until 15:50. Thats the time the last record was sent out from HMM to AdminRX. I have one interface for both RDE and MFN records to be transmitted.

      After the MFN’s were processed, I saw the first RDE message for the order that was entered at 12:30am.

      Question1: Is it normal to process 6600 MFN’s records for 4 1/2 hours ?

      Question2: Is that the way an interface works. that means all the data has to be processed and then send the order ?

      Question3. How are you handling the monthly FDB updates?

      Question4.  How long does it takes to send all the MFN’s from HMM to AdminRX?

      Question5. Are you taking the users off line during the FDB updates in live?

      Question6. Is there something I could do to speed up the data flow from HMM to AdminRX?

      Thanks in advance for your helpful suggestions.

      thanks

      Reggie

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      • January 27, 2006 at 4:35 pm #58239
        Anonymous
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          Reggie,

          What type of protocol are you using? file-set local?

          Carlos

        • January 27, 2006 at 4:47 pm #58240
          Anonymous
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            Carlos,

            this is a TCP/IP interface.

            Goign thru CL engine QDX 5.3.

            Sending system runs on Win2k.

            Receiving system runs on AIX 5.2

            CL engine runs on AIX 5.1

            Thanks

            Reggie

          • January 27, 2006 at 4:54 pm #58241
            Anonymous
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              Do you have any messages in the error database?

              Check the outbound smat file to see if you are sending duplicates.

              Compare the time stamps (in the .idx file) of the time that you sent the message and the time that you received the ACK, and compare the time elapsed between the send of two messages to see where is the delay.

              Is the connection closed everytime that a message is sent? that could also delay the transmission.

              Carlos

            • January 27, 2006 at 6:14 pm #58242
              Anonymous
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                Carols,

                I received about 6600+ MFN records.

                I sent out same number of records.

                Time stamp shows they 1 sec a part or. It depends how fast the application generated the MFN records.

                I do not see duplicates or time lapse.

                What I was trying to find from folks who have implemented the HMM -Admin RX integration, how did they handle this?

                Have you integrated any of these applications?

                thanks

                Reggie

              • January 30, 2006 at 4:34 pm #58243
                Anonymous
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                  Reggie,

                  6600 messages in 4 1/2 hours is about 2.45 messages per second on average. If the timestamp is 1 second apart, it should take almost 2 hrs to process all the messages. I was expecting to see messages rejected or someother type of errors that would count for the slowdown.

                  The slowdown must be somewhere in one of the boxes and not in the interface itself.

                  Maybe the Windows box is not fast enough to generate the records. I’m sorry I’m not familiar with the HMM-Admin RX integration.

                • January 31, 2006 at 1:42 pm #58244
                  Anonymous
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                    Thank you Carlos.

                    I agree that the records were generated by sending application (HMM) fast enough to hose them thru. HMM application runs only in Windows 2K.

                    I wish some CloverTechers who are live with this could share their experiences.

                    Thanks

                    Reggie

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