About the Link File Processor

The Link File Processor utility provides continuous demographic synchronisation between;

• MedicalDirector Clinical and Bluechip, or
• MedicalDirector Clinical and a third-party front-desk (patient billing) application.

  MedicalDirector recommends that the Link File Processor is not used at sites running both MedicalDirector Clinical and Pracsoft.

  The Link File Processor reads patient demographic data from a Patients.IN file. This is a text file that a billing package writes to when you create a new patient record (or modify an existing patient's record) in the billing package. Such changes are written to the Patients.IN file, and the Link File Processor reads this file periodically, importing any data it finds to Clinical.

• The Link File Processor only processes the Patients.IN file when it detects a change to it.
• If the Patients.IN file cannot be processed, another attempt will be made in 10 seconds, or when the Patients.IN file is next modified.
• If the Patients.IN file is too large to be processed (based on the file size limit you have specified - see Step 6 below) the Patients.IN file will be renamed to Patients.in_yyyyMMddhhmmss.BAK. A note of such is also added to the Link File Processor Log.