Re: [Gnumed-devel] coding any SOAP item

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > > As a bill_those_rows table will only display what *has* been flagged,
> > > the only nagging concern is how to NOT miss billing for things that
> > > *ought* to be flagged, yet haven't been.
> >
> > Well, if I have any say (and if we are serious about keeping
> > GnuMed useful irrespective of the setting), *that* part of
> > GnuMed will only concern itself with clinical stuff. Other
> 
> Suggestion: stick to the messenger paradigm.
> Any widget believing it has something to say regarding billing, *may* send a 
> message "BillingItem" with parameters {code:value, comment:text ...} via 
> dispatcher,
> and if you have a billing backend in place, it will get the message and act 
> accordingly.
> If you have no billing backend or don't need the feature, the message is 
> simply (automatically) ignored.
Since you are talking (front- to backend) messaging and we
were discussing backend I'll take this to mean that you would
also opt to not pollute clinical tables with billing fields ?
Your solution would work either way. BTW, how does GnuMed-mini
do it (flamebait, I know :-)

Karsten
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