Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting

[richard terry]

On Friday 20 May 2011 06:38:52 Jim Busser wrote:

My 2c worth is that Billing needs to be incorporated in any genuine medical 
record and not rely on external linking. At least in Australia, and I suspect 
many other countries, you will get no takeup at all without that. Here for 
example it needs to be integrated with on-line claiming.

At least in most western countries they are inseperably linked, not only just 
because the staff need to know what is done, but because the clinical record 
may need to troll the item numbers pertinent to say chronic disease 
management.

Not sure where gnuMed stands on appointments as well.


Regards

Richard

> On 2011-05-18, at 2:40 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >> What GNUmed should next need is
> >>
> >> - a table which can hold billable items
> >
> > Yes that's the selection list of billable items I was
> > talking about.
> >
> >> - for each record in the table
> >>
> >>    1) use-cases for when they would be created;
> >
> > I would understand this as "would be copied to become a
> > bill(ed) item" (an "invoice line" in ERP speak).
> 
> We are talking here tow sets of "things", both needed:
> 
> 1. a reference / lookup list of the kinds and range of things that are
>  billable
> 
> 2. a table of actual things that are to be billed-for, per-patient
> 
> What I intended by "billable" was
> 
>       - here is something I can bill for
>               (or that the staff can take care of invoicing for me)
> 
>       - here is another thing I can bill for
>               (or that the staff can invoice for me)
> 
> so in essence, each record in the table would be
> 
>       "something actual, per patient, to be billed for, even though this
>  placeholder record does not itself constitute 'the bill'"
> 
> 
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