Bridge - Sirona Sidexis 

Sirona SIDEXIS XG is imaging software.  Website:  www.sidexis.com

To activate the bridge, in the Main Menu, click Setup, Program Links.  Double click on Sirona in the list. Check the Enabled box, then verify the Path of file to open is correct.  Click OK. You will now have a button in your Chart module labeled 'Sirona'.

Technical Data
This data is provided for troubleshooting purposes.

Dates are always sent to Sirona in European format "dd.mm.yyyy", as required by Sirona. In Canada and in other Countries, if there is a mixture of computers in the office with different Windows Region and Language Settings, this may cause duplicate patients to be created by Sirona when comparing birthdates.  This seems to especially be a problem if patients were manually entered into Sirona.

A file called sifiledb.ini must exist in the sidexis folder.  If the file is not found, then trying to use the bridge will result in an error message about that file.

EZ2000 Plus Dental reads the ini file, FromStation0 | File to determine location of comm file (sendBox) (siomin.sdx).  For example, this File location indicates only one sendBox on the entire network:
[FromStation0]
File=F:\PDATA\siomin.sdx

EZ2000 Plus Dental then sets OfficeManagement | OffManConnected = 1 to make sidexis ready to accept a message.  For example:
[OfficeManagement]
OffManConnected=1

EZ2000 Plus Dental then adds a "U" section to the ini file, signifying Update patient in sidexis. The entire "U" section gets ignored by Sidexis if this is a new patient.  EZ2000 Plus Dental leaves the "initial patient id" blank, causing the patient id used in Sidexis to get updated to the PatNum or ChartNumber used in EZ2000 Plus Dental.

EZ2000 Plus Dental then adds a "N" section to the ini file.  N signifies create New patient in sidexis. If patient already exists, then it simply updates any old data.

EZ2000 Plus Dental then adds an "A" section to the ini file.  A signifies Autoselect patient.

In each of the three sections discussed above, the full name and birthdate are included, and Sidexis seems to use name and birthdate to identify patients.

EZ2000 Plus Dental then launches Sidexis.exe.

A troubleshooting step would be to get a copy of the ini file before Sidexis is launched, possibly by changing the program link to launch a dummy file instead of Sidexis.exe.  This would prevent consumption of the ini file.