Write spreadsheet data from url

Write spreadsheet data from url


Sorry for the long post, but I'm a newbie.

Short version: How do I use the url to write cell data to an online spreadsheet?

Long version:  I'm a physician working with an electronic medical record (EMR).  Our EMR templates have the capability to include links to websites.  We use this capabiliity to link to a wide variety of clinical tools or calculators to aid in decision making.  The clinical tools we use are built on often simple formulas using clinical variables already coded in the EMR.  

The problem is that physicians are click-averse.  Many times they won't use a clinical tool or calculator if they have to reenter all of the required data.  So I'm looking for a way to use the links in our templates and the variables already contained in the EMR to move a physician directly to an online site where the result of the clinical tool calculation can be found.

Example:  There is a decision tool to calculate what type of blood thinner to put a patient with atrial fibrillation on.  You get one point each for age >75, diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure, and 2 points for history of a stroke, and if you have over a certain total, the doc is supposed to use drug X.  A spreadsheet will easily add this up for me.  I can link to a Zoho online spreadsheet containing the formula.  And my EMR will use conditional logic to assign 0=age under 75, 1=age over 75 and so forth, and it can insert these values into a url automatically.  But what I need is a way for the url to write the cell data to the spreadsheet.  

Something along the lines of: http://public.sheet.zoho.com/public.do?docurl=...[cellB2=0;cellB3=0;cellB4=1;cellB5=0cellB5=2] where the brackets contain the cell values which will then be inserted into the spreadsheet upon opening the link.

Thanks for reading.

RPP



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