Daily Archives: January 29, 2017


Raised flower bed - 2017-01-29

CSV alternatives (JSON, XML, BSON) – Raised flower bed

Comma-separated values (CSV) I am working at the IT-Department of Universitätsklinikum Erlangen (University Hospital Erlangen) and this week I created a CSV file for a other project. The aim of this project is to migrate clinical findings into a new system. The clinical findings in the old system don’t have identifiers like a patient-id or a case number but some demographic data (name, surname, birthdate, zip code, …). The project manager and his developer who are responsible for the migration contacted me and asked for demographic data of our patients to implement a heuristic to assign the clinical findings to the correct patients. […]