[Gnumed-devel] Scripts and Gnucash -- Integration or Middleware?

[Yudhvir Singh Sidhu]

Syan Wrote:

Syan -- scripts implements medical decisions. What are scripts? How does it 
work?
[Yudhvir -- Maybe my nomenclature is wrong, the speaker alluded to what I 
think of as scripts. For example, a patient breaks her leg in an accident. 
The doctor prescribes medicine a for the pain and schedules surgery to fix 
this and that for the same afternoon. When he inputs the surgery schedule, 
a script runs:

-  for a female patient
-  between the ages of 18 and 26 -  who is being treated for a broken leg
-  display warning "There is a 45% chance of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Latin 
Female patients if surgery for a severely broken leg is performed within 6 
hours. The probability for shock is reduced to 15% for surgery performed 8 
to 10 hours after the injury. a 12 hour waiting period is recommended."

I am not a doctor, so my example is weak and simplistic. From what I 
understood, doctors will be able to write their own scripts, or most 
probably, modify existing scripts.
]

Syan  -- 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
Syan  -- we be trying out a tutorial on it somewhere ?
[Yudhvir -- 1.  Gnucash comes with a tutorial for the software user. The 
s/w loads very easily via redhat rpm.
2.  I do NOT have any idea what Gnucash schema or sql logic look like. 3.  
The problem I have is what exactly do we want to do? I have a business 
degree and have 16 years of IT experience, so I think I can help in this 
area. On one side is Gnucash which does accounting and on the other is 
bfree which does billing. I am thinking integration. What would that 
entail? Integration of the source codes would be problematic when the 
original code changes and we have to keep doing it on a regular basis. Or 
maybe once the structure is setup, we can do that easily.
]

Yudhvir Singh Sidhu