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How can I extract my patient information and sync it with my outlook contacts? Is there a way to automate the process?

DOes OD sync with outlook? Can it be done?

It sort of depends on how involved you want to get. Nearly anything is going to require someone writing a short macro in Visual Basic. This is a feature of Outlook. So someone who was resourceful could do it, but it's not an included feature of OD. You're not asking about appointments or email, right? Just contacts? I know that in import/export format does exist for Outlook contacts. It would be a feature request.

yes just contacts which i want to use in outlook and hudlite.

OK, if you do feel like writing a script, you could initially pull all patients from the OD database. Then for changes, the patient table has a DateTStamp column that holds the date and time that the last change was made to each row. If you keep track of the last time you checked for changes, a simple query can pull all recent changes. Like I said, it might get a little involved, but it is doable.