[optimal] Re: From Denice Heidelberg Issue

  • From: sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 17:51:22 -0400

do you have access to the files on the server?

and is the server copy a mirror or does it keep copies of daily changes? (ie my 
backup scripts archive all changes and deletions) 

-sandor

On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:35 PM, CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center 
<cpmceyelab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think inasmuch as there are four different exam dates it is unlikely that 
> each four times we Messed UP and put her images with someone elses?
>  
> But, will try that tack.  It’s starting to sound as if her entire database 
> entry got deleted….
> 
> D
>  
> Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB, CDOS, FOPS
> Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
> CPMC Department of Ophthalmology
> 2100 Webster Street Suite 212
> San Francisco CA 94115
> (415) 600-3937   FAX (415) 600-6563
>  
> From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Ethan Priel
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 11:56 AM
> To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Orndorff, Karina
> Subject: [optimal] Re: From Denice Heidelberg Issue
>  
> Hi Denice, thanks for the twister…
>  
> - did she have more than 5 exams ? ( once you mention 'multiple' and once '5')
>  
> - it is possible to DELETE AN ENTIRE DATABASE ENTRY. Don’t ask me how, not 
> telling.
>  
> - if it were my case: check out the last date of her exam, go over all other 
> HeyEx entries, and verify that they are 'bona fide' – meaning check to see 
> that none of them are actually of your missing patient – and that somehow 
> they got edited and changed.
>  
> - if they are all legit, try creating a New Patient entry with her correct 
> data and see if the HeyEx 'allows' you to create it without a prompt telling 
> you that there is already a patient by that name etc. etc.
>  
> - if all the above fails, contact Heidelberg Engineering…. And let us know 
> what you found out !
>  
> Ethan
>  
> Ps: how do you search by 'birthdate' ?
>  
> From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of CPMC Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
> Sent: 01 July, 2013 19:18
> To: 'optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Cc: Orndorff, Karina
> Subject: [optimal] From Denice Heidelberg Issue
>  
> Here’s a puzzler for the day:
>  
> ·         I have a patient who has had multiple Spectralis studies going back 
> to 2010
>  
> ·         Our Heidelberg is backed up to a server nightly.
>  
> ·         She comes back last week, NO RECORD of her previous 5 exams.  Not 
> by searching name, date of service, date of birth, personal identifier
>  
> ·         It’s as if she never existed
>  
> ·         And yet, if I go back to our Willow DBS PACS, I can see the 
> Spectralis print outs we imported into this system, and the name, birthdate, 
> etc etc are all embedded in the Spectralis printout proving to me that a) not 
> crazy, we did see her    b) we had the name spelled correctly
>  
> ·         How could so many different exams just disappear and is there 
> another way to search the database, independent of getting my server team to 
> search the backup ( not on the external Heidelberg drives, but rather my 
> server) files to find her?
>  
> ·         I could see an isolated exam date going missing, or even a repeat, 
> but 5 different exams, different dates and they are ALL gone?    If the 
> system had hiccupped during backup, I don’t see how consistently all of the 
> records on one patient would just go missing in a vacuum…
>  
> Denice
>  
>  
>  
> Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB, CDOS, FOPS
> Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
> CPMC Department of Ophthalmology
> 2100 Webster Street Suite 212
> San Francisco CA 94115
> (415) 600-3937   FAX (415) 600-6563
>  

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