Sync 2.0 Planning

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

@darius

In Sync 2.0 we should take the other approach, and synchronize the complete most recent version of the record. FHIR has a Patient resource but not a PatientDemographicEdit resource. This also implies that if the demographics were edited 3 times while a slave was offline, it only needs to pull the patient once after coming back online.

+1. It’s worth picturing how implementations could evolve from Sync 2.0 into “enterprise sync” (i.e., HIE). Taking a higher level “give me the latest info for this patient” approach is closer to the types of transactions used in an HIE.

@darius

@pgesek, maybe you want to cross-post on the Implementing category and ask that specific question.

@pgesek, you can refer to the following post for instructions on how to create a linked topic in OpenMRS Talk:

HOWTO: Take off-topic discussion to a new topic

When you are participating in a discussion on OpenMRS Talk, it is polite to keep the discussion on topic. If you want to take the discussion a different direction than it was initially intended or you want to have some side discussion on a related (or unrelated) topic, then it is polite to start a new topic instead of having “off topic” discussion. Unfortunately, at least for now, the feature to Reply as Linked Topic is hard to find. Here is where you can find it: Two ways to start an off-top…