BC billing data source was Re: [Gnumed-devel] slave mode scripts

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-07-13, at 11:36 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Reading pycommon/gmScriptingListener.py might help, too.

Some original ideas boiled down... specification for the external data file at 
bottom

Much of what I need could be achieved by just extending the "external patient 
sources" which GNUmed already knows and can already read. If all I want is to 
be able to invoke a patient in GNUmed from the outside this makes a lot of 
sense. It could be debugged from within the client - just hit F2 and select the 
patient from among the choices. I think this will need a new XDT file to be 
created to "map" to the specification below, and for this XDT to be reference 
in the local user config file?

        http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ExternalPatientImport

The ONLY remaining part would then be to get the already-existing 
gm_ctl_client.py ??? to tell the client to *now* look for a new external 
patient.

This is less a need for the clinician unless the patient had not before been 
created in GNUmed *and* the doctor is logged onto the billing software. It is 
more a need for the front desk who (in a small office) does both billing and 
appointments.

Would such "GNUmed being told to look"  still depend on a running slave 
instance to be "controlled"?

        http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/XmlRpcApi

        Example of what is possible to extend the above to do:
        
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumed/gnumed/client/wxpython/gmMacro.py?root=gnumed&view=markup

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British Columbia billing program particulars...

Jim's notes:

- source directory will reside on a Windows NTFS file system volume.
- end-of-Record will be designated by Carriage Return and Line Feed
- character set is "plain Western" (ISO Latin 1)
- record mockup:

FIRSTNAME           XXLASTNAME                 912345677300BC    
196012251234512345M6       
ADDRESS_LINE_1_XXXXXXXXXXADDRESS_LINE_2_XXXXXXXXXXCITY_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXBCA2A
 2A2  604124456760489012340000000002009071307801

- "PHN" + "Dependent #" + "Carrier ID" (in the above example "9123456773", 
"00", BC") work together as an identifier

- format specification:

*-- MSVAEX30.TXT format
*--
*--------------------------------------------------------------------
*-- First Name          X(20)  No punctuations ( e.g. John Allen)
*-- MSP Initials        X(02)  e.g. JA
*-- Last Name           X(25)
*-- PHN                 9(10)
*-- Dependent #         9(02)  66 for newborn, otherwise zeros
*-- Carrier ID          X(02)  Province providing coverage:
*--                            BC, AB, SA, MB, ON, PQ, OI, NB, NS, NL, YT, NT, 
NU
*-- Exempt              X(01)  "X" for exempt, otherwise blank
*-- Opted-out           X(01)  "H" for Hard (Send payment to patient address)
*--                            "S" for Soft (Send paymant to office address)
*--                            Blank for Opted-in
*-- Visits Used         9(02)  # of MSP visits used this calendar year, form 
zero up
*--                            to 12 0r 15 depending on age.
*-- Birthdate           9(08)  ccyymmdd
*-- Payee #             9(05)  
*-- Practitioner #      9(05)
*-- Sex                 X(01)  M, F
*-- Chart #             X(08)
*-- Street 1            X(25)
*-- Street 2            X(25)
*-- City                X(25)
*-- Province            X(02)
*-- Postal Code         X(09) A0A'b'0A0 or US Zip Code
*-- Home Phone          9(10) If no area code use 3 leading zeros
*-- Work Phone          9(10) If no area code use 3 leading zeros
*-- SIN                 9(09)
*-- Last Service Date   9(08) ccyymmdd
*-- Referral Doctor     9(05)
*--
*-- Record size = 220 + <CR><LF> = 222 End-of-Record designated by Carriage 
Return and Line Feed. 
*-- File is ASCII text - Named "MSVAEX30.TXT"
*-- X(n) = Aplhanumeric, left justified, padded with blanks
*-- 9(n) = Numeric, leading zeros