Re: [Gnumed-devel] Better-supporting staff and other non-patient persons

[Jim Busser]

On 16-Jun-09, at 4:25 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

Usually they would have a SOAP row because narrative would've been

imported. Assuming the old record would have been imported as documents

only then there would not be any SOAP row, however.

They may not even have documents, if the import was from the billing software that had been employed by an otherwise-paper-only records office.

Maybe this suggests that when importing from billing software, an encounter of type

legacy billing

that pertains to the chronologically-most-recent billing be created, assigned the same date as the date of service, and a soap row attached containing

service/visit billed (item) for <diagnostic code system> <value>

e,g,

service/visit billed (310 consultation) for ICD-9 250 diabetes mellitus

which could be in the s (Soap) or maybe o (sOap) row

and maybe the same done with the oldest and that way you would have within the new patient (GNUmed) record both the oldest and newest dates billed giving some indication of how long the patient had been in the praxis ... depending on how long this billing database covered. (??)