[Gnumed-devel] (no subject): decision support and gnucash

[syan tan]

Yudhvir wrote:

Having seen one other automated and integrated medical info system, and 
heard what some MDs have to say about it. It has two main themes driving it:
a. Decision support. Scripts implements medical decisions. If you don't 
know what I am talking about, I will elaborate because this is a subject 
which can have a lot of discussion.

-- scripts implements medical decisions. What are scripts? How does it work?

b. Accounting. For the main purpose of saving money. That is how us 
Americans think.

It would be awesome to implement Activity Based Cost (ABC) accounting. 
That way each medical activity - and the "activity" can be defined to an 
treatment encounter or something smaller like an office visit or a phone 
call - can be costed. Why is this important? Due to reduced insurance 
payments, private practices have begun to refuse less lucrative 
procedures - which pushes these procedures to HMOs. People without 
insurance are showing up at emergency rooms in hospitals and legally, 
they have to be treated even if they cannot pay.

I am being long-winded here. But I can see why redoing and keeping up 
with the likes of Gnucash will be a waste of our energies.

-- have you a structure in mind for gnucash that  can be used in this 
project? I haven't really looked into gnucash and how to set it up. Should
-- we be trying out a tutorial on it somewhere ?