Re: sms flat to muti threads

[Ryan Spires]

This may be a bit overkill in your environment, but we have several inbound sms records, though we are now on the GRV3 (hl7 super), we have an inbound site that is used to send the data to muliple “site threads”

in other words, we have 1 site that all the data comes into for our ADT and orders, and we send that data to multiple site threads. (localhost)

sms_in —-> cerner_xfer

          —-> idx_xfer

          —-> misc_xfer

          —-> misc2_xfer

The cerner_xfer would then point to a unused port on localhost

The cerner site would have a thread listening on that port.

We have multiple inbound SMS feeds, so we replicate the above  6 or 7 times.

Then we can break the data into categories that make since.   We currently have a cerner site, an IDX site and several MISC sites.

It has been suggested that we migrate to a “facility” based scheme, though we have not been able to justify the effort in doing so at this time.

You could do the same thing in the same site, or there are some that choose to “OVER” the message in a single thread, effectively using both the inbound and outbound side of a single thread.

inbound —-> middle

---

> outbound

rather than

inbound

---

>local1send       local1recv—->outbound

One thing I have discovered, is there are many different ways to do different things, not all bad, not all good.  You have to find what way makes the most sense in your environment, remember you have to maintain it 🙂

Hope that helps, let me know if you need more detail.

thanks,

Ryan