Re: [Gnumed-devel] Billing/LedgerSMB gap analysis

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-06-15, at 7:57 PM, Chris Travers wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Jim Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2011-06-15, at 3:02 PM, Chris Travers wrote:
>> 
>>>> Exactly, that is what I meant. In many parts of the world
>>>> just writing a simple bill will go a long way.
>>> 
>>> As far as simple billing. we are there.
>> 
>> Does this mean a clear path to a GNUmed plugin which could:
>> 
>> - support the creation of one (or multiple) billing items per patient
>> - allow LSMB to "pull" these billables together with any needed demographic 
>> information
> 
> It means that LSMB is capable of storing the information usefully.
> How it comes in is another question to resolve.

Divisible in two?

        GNUmed plugin (dependency on schema, objects, gui…)

        LSMB "fetch" daemon?

>> 
>> If yes, can I suggest that it would be useful to be able to include (with 
>> the billing information) the patient's
>> 
>>        ID type
>>        Value
>>        Issuer
>> 
>> because the above could often provide insurer (payer) information to go over 
>> to LSMB?
> 
> I don't want to deal with insurer info without having real third party
> billing.  That's a mess waiting to happen.

Understood. However once we are past the "basic billing" above I do think that 
real 3rd party billing can follow. I can at that point provide a use case 
which, even though it is limited, may still inform some of the concepts further.

-- Jim


-- Jim