Re: [Gnumed-devel] get something done

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:08, J Busser wrote:
> At 11:21 PM +0100 11/26/05, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >Spell out small projects /features
> >Programmers have no medical background
> >and will rely on your guidance and your feature request.
> >
> >What do you have to do ?
> >1.) write a project description (200) words what you want to get done
> >2.) open a page in our wiki containing that description
> >3.) put down an outline of features for your project
> >4.) describe each feature in great detail, no code just descriptions,
> >pseudocode, links to screenshots, handdrawn user interfaces ...
>
> Possible projects (I would guess 120 words and 90 words). Before I go
> to the trouble of expanding I thought I would invite comment on
> suitability for Sebastian's resources (students?) and strategic value
> for GNUmed. Replies will help me decide which (if either) to spend
> more time detailing.
>
> ===============================
> re lab data fetching and importing
>
> PROJECT:  Converting C# (C sharp) code to python
> - identify the issues that should be expected
> - provide a practical guide to go about it
> - write the code
> - use case:
>
> Take C# code that has been developed for fetching and importing HL7
> lab data, convert it to python, and adapt it to the GNUmed db schema
> and workflow. Prove function in an anticoagulation clinic.
>
> I expect to receive (in the next 2 weeks) some code that is to
> supercede the java code I had shared with Syan and Karsten a few
> months ago. Its function had been to establish a connection with a
> local lab results provider and to import it into a different EMR. The
> original programmers were unable to update that code to work with the
> lab provider's new firewall configuration and hardware so rewrote the
> code in C#.
>
> Separately from the code described above, a local doctor has written
> his own code to do lab data fetching and importing from the same
> provider into his own EMR and may be quite disposed to sharing it, I
> await some details. If it is in anything other than C# we can see
> what difference that would make to the (student?) interest or the
> feasibility of the project.
>
> ===============================
> re GNUmed pushing data into a billing program
>
> PROJECT:  Develop an inter-operability model between an EMR and an
> e-billing service
> - identify how EMR clinical data can most easily be staged for
> transfer to a billing program
> - identify a data structure and workflow in EMR by which to track
> items that need billing
> - identify approach for connection, data transmission, rejection
> handling and signoff of items
> - identify the refactoring required by a billing program / service to
> handle such transfers
> - write the code (one end or both ends)
> - use case:
>
> GNUmed (for my province of British Columbia) has a billing service
> interested to determine what refactoring would be required to permit
> the coupling of GNUmed (as an EMR that lacks billing, or at least
> lacks the electronic submission of billing) to his electronic claims
> input and submission service.
> ==============================
>
Today is a good day. That is what I am looking for. Once I get more exposure 
to the students (which I don't know myself) I will be happy to present your 
projects to them. 
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