The Transfer.out file is a pipe delimited ("|" ASCII 124) text format containing patient demographics and is the preferred standard for transferring data from Clinical or into MedicalDirector Pracsoft when linked to a third-party package.
Each line in the file relates to a single patient and consists of a character string terminated with a single Carriage return/Line feed (ASCII 13 + ASCII 10). The file can contain any number of lines (each line representing a different patient record) as per the following format and is usually created in a shared data directory.
Field Position |
Name |
Max Field Length |
Description |