Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: How to build GNUmed packages for Ubuntu from Debian

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> In the meantime I think there is no way I would have believed GNUmed  
> could be made to work other than by and for ridiculously expert people, 
> ***if it had not been for the packages***.

I fully agree.

> (1) I do not think vendors will be of any help until GNUmed offers  

The following is something to keep in mind when deciding on
the actual road map:

> enough functionality to run a praxis. I believe that once GNUmed is able 
> to manage and print medication lists -- modifiable to serve as  
> prescriptions -- that time will be very close. It may depend  
> additionally on:
> - a workgroup appointment manager that can interoperate with gnumed
> - a finance (billing) program that can interoperate with GNUmed
> - a few extra bits of GNUmed functionality such as:

> - - an expanded patient creation widget in which to also input a primary 
> external id

That IMO should be on the roadmap for 0.6.

> - - maintaining who within the praxis is a patient's "default" provider
> - - maintaining who else (outside the praxis) among a database of other 
> doctors (GPs and specialists) have previously or currently do or have 
> been asked in the upcoming days/weeks/months to provide care

Not sure whether that'll make it for 0.6 or 0.7.

> - - attaching codes to sOAp rows and/or health issues (ICD9, Reid, SNOMED)

That's one of the things I personally really want to
implement. I have already taken several "secret" steps
towards it (adding some LOINC and ATC support to database
and frontend). ICPC and ICDx are planned next. This effort
mainly suffers from lack of freely usable data files from a
dependable download source for the coding systems.

Karsten
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