Medinet ParseR

Parses data from the Medinet Scheduling system, developed by Medical Networks Scandinavia AB, for analysis in R, aiding scheduling and follow up. This project is in no way connected to the developers of Medinet.

Prefer working in Python? No problem! Check out Medinet ParseR’s sister package Medinet ParsePy.

Installing the medinetparser Package

The following steps describe how to install medinetparser from GitHub.

1. Install devtools

install.packages('devtools')

2. Load devtools

library(devtools)

3. Install medinetparser

install_github('JonasEngstrom/medinetparser', build_vignettes = TRUE)

4. Load medinetparser

library(medinetparser)

Get Started Using Medinet ParseR

Medinet ParseR currently does not support scraping data directly from Medinet, as this would require handling login credentials. Therefore data must first be downloaded manually, by following the subsequent steps.

1. Go to the Medinet Website.

2. Log in.

3. If you work in several departments, you will be prompted to choose one at this point. If not, skip ahead to the next step.

4. Click Schema.

5. Make sure Schemavy is set to Vecka vs användare.

6. Choose the weeks you are interested in analyzing.

7. Use the web brower’s save command.

8. Save the page in HTML format. This will be your input file to Medinet ParseR.