Re: [Gnumed-devel] Anticoagulation project and larger planning issues

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J Busser wrote:

> The local district strategic planning committee believes that a set of 
> very basic modules
> - patient identification (even if just "fed" from an appointment 
> manager / biller)
> - lab results handling
> - medication management
>
> @ Karsten & others, would it take a full-time programmer more than a 
> month to develop gnumed to the extent I need? Should a programmer from 
> a developed country cost much more than $50 Can/Aus (30 euros) per 
> hour? (Not twice that, I hope!!!)
patient identification has been done about 3 -4 times already , and will 
be probably be the most
familiar problem to a programmer. medication management at a basic level 
has been done,
but not with the tracking interaction that's been mentioned. Lab 
handling is new territory.

I was going to estimate a week's worth of work, but then you've got 
professional liability insurance,
adequate recognition of programmer's work, etc... ( that's what happens 
when money is mentioned)

You might get a cheaper rate if the programmer(s) is promised 
introduction for customization work,
goodwill such as no liability , etc...

(assuming that the result isn't going to be made into a product).

Aside,
wrt to lab result handling,  one of the pathology communication 
companies in oz have implemented
roundtrip  request / result correlation , and our practice manager is 
trying to strongly recommend
to the docs only to use that software (and that associated pathology 
company) , as it
provides a electronic system of following up patients who don't go 
through with recommended
investigations  :  apparently this is going to be a practice 
accreditation requirement,
that practices have a system for tracking miscreant / slack patients 
that don't do their requests
(i.e. reminding them at least once).

Such are the  commercial side effects of newer/ "better" accreditation 
requirements for justifying
an accreditation bureaucracy.