Import CCDA file from the Backend Instead of UI

Management and Administration
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Hi,

I am importing about 15011 CCDA files which zipped together is about 4GB. Is there a way i can do the import with a script at the backend?

Has anyone done this already? Is there a script available to share?

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OpenEMR has commands for importing ccdas from the command line. Look at how the random patients are imported with the openemr-cmd. It imports a bunch of CCDAs that are generated via the Synthea command. You could follow the same process to bulk import your patients using the ccda command line tools.

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Thank you Stephen for the suggestion.

Isn’t the openemr-cmd for docker installations?

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Its used to manage the docker installations but for the random patient generator it will make calls to the openemr/bin/console command. Here’s some information I sent another individual about the import process that you would probably find useful.

Lines 228-235 shows what’s called in the docker container for the import random patients command https://github.com/openemr/openemr-devops/blob/master/utilities/openemr-cmd/openemr-cmd

The import-random-patients function is in devtoolsLibrary.source lines 214-231 https://github.com/openemr/openemr-devops/blob/master/docker/openemr/flex-edge/utilities/devtoolsLibrary.source

These are the relevant underlying calls that are used from the bash script https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/master/contrib/util/ccda_import/import_ccda.php

The import_ccda.php internally calls w/ the bin/console command either the following script in dev mode or the CcdaImport.php and CcdaNewPatient.php files in production mode.

Dev Mode https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/master/src/Common/Command/CcdaNewpatientImport.php Production Mode

openemr/src/Common/Command/CcdaImport.php at master · openemr/openemr · GitHub https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/master/src/Common/Command/CcdaNewpatient.php

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This looks like a solid plan. I will test that and report back