Jim DeMarco
Jdemarco at hudsonhealthplan.org
Mon Dec 12 10:08:07 CST 2005
dba-VB AccessD List, We have a VB/SQL app that we are actively marketing to other health plans and county social service agencies that handles enrollments into Medicaid and other government funded health programs. I have a need to transmit the apps data electronically from a health plan to a county agency. Yes we can simply FTP a file and let an agency pull the data down but it's not quite that simple. Different agencies have different needs for the data (some have IT resources, some don't, some need data input to send data back to plan some don't). My vision is a web portal where the county can define what data the plan should send them and define a file of what data they'll send back to the plan. My app should read the file and generate the appropriate export file and import data correctly based on the county's export (if any). Using .NET technologies I'd like the portal to also have the ability to connect to the local copy of my app's database for authentication and data access. The question is: Can I do this via web services? Can a user log on to my portal passing me a site ID so I know where their local database resides for authentication? That done, can I then create data entry forms against their local copy of the apps database? We'd rather not host all data here (competing plans may use the app and probably wouldn't care for that arrangement!) Hopefully this isn't too confusing and someone can enlighten me. TIA, Jim DeMarco Director of Application Development Hudson Health Plan *********************************************************************************** "This electronic message is intended to be for the use only of the named recipient, and may contain information from Hudson Health Plan (HHP) that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately, either by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above or calling HHP at (914) 631-1611. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not forward this email to anyone, and delete and destroy all copies of this message. Thank You". ***********************************************************************************