Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interest in GNUmed

[Jim Busser]

On 2009-10-17, at 9:22 AM, Slappinjohn wrote:

> Implementing a complete billing system, maybe for the german health
> system, wont work without many, many hours of programming :( and it
> won't work for other countries, but a billing system, everybody can
> design the way he needs, is worth thinking about...

There are many approaches, some of which we talked about before.

We do have on the wiki some descriptions of how a *separate* billing  
program can work with GNUmed. I have already emailed the list about  
that during the past few months.

There is a simple (very limited) functionality that -- once we would  
get printing more tidily handled -- could be completed as a small  
project inside GNUmed. However that functionality would IMO be  
suitable only for situations where a patient would pay directly,  
exactly for the individual charges *or* where the simple functionality  
would be enhanced to pass items *unidirectionally* to an outside  
program. This is because even before any complexity of electronic file  
transmissions to outside payers (or government) could be considered,  
the schema would have to handle multiple accounts and variable  
payments per patient.

If new usage of GNUmed awaits Karsten to write a billing program such  
new users would be waiting a long time.

Can these new interested people be helped to better understand the  
kind of dialog they need to open with their local vendors?