Re: [Health-dev] Quantity at service line is an interger

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Bounmy !
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 05:17:01 +0700
Bounmy Sihaphom <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Luis!
> Thanks for your kind reply.I am still thinking the Integer qty should
> be discussed more.
> ... We cannot enter 1.19 or 1.07 into the qty field, can someone help?
> 
> Product / services should be integers.
> I think that you should be able to differentiate the product price by
> using price lists, which are quite flexible and allow you to do
> different combinations depending on the patient.
> ...
> Then I have to triple the number of product by 3 if I have 3 types of
> patients (429 x 3=1287), which I like to avoid.Personally,
> personally, i still want to find a way of making qty is a float
> unless there is a very reasonable fact behind this.
I still don't get why you need to use float for product / services
lines.
In products, you can use Unit of Measures, which should deal with
different amounts.

I think I'm not understanding your point. But you should be able to
achieve most (all?) scenarios with pricelists and the product Unit
of Measure (UoM) , using always integers (so 0.5 hours can be encoded
as 30 mins, for instance)

Let's have an IRC talk and we'll try to solve it.

Best,
 
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards;
> 
> Bounmy Sihaphom
> mail. address@hidden
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Bounmy !
> >
> > Before I go into details, let me take this opportunity to express my
> > gratitude for your commitment to GNU Health in your country, Laos. I
> > personally visited the CMR and I congtratulate you and the medical
> > team there, for the fantastic job you are doing for the community.
> > You have done so much in so little time, so keep up the great job !
> >
> > Please see my comments inline below.
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:34:53 +0700
> > Bounmy Sihaphom <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Luis and Gnuhealth community!
> > >
> > > I have been implementing Gnuhealth as pilot project at Centre of
> > > Medical Rehabilitation in Vientiane , Laos.We have a lot of issues
> > > but nothing major.We work as a team, one look after nework,one
> > > look after user support and others look after gnuhealth
> > > customization.We can say we have accomplished something: from
> > > registering patients,Evaluating and ,prescribing and invoicing
> > > around 75% done.Withouth all of your help, we definitely are not
> > > able to come this far.Doctors and nurses are using in daily basis.
> > This is a lot !
> > > However, we are
> > > still in the process of testing a lot of things and learning at
> > > the same time.So you have seen many questions from us, many dumb
> > > questions maybe with broken english, so we really apologize for
> > > that.
> > There are no such things as "dumb" questions. Most of your questions
> > I've seen in the forum come after you have investigated and try to
> > come up with a solution. We are all here to learn from each other.
> > > We have been through so many obstacles and seen this
> > > implementation is not for normal Joe can do.
> > Implementing GNU Health in a health institution, or a health
> > intitution networks requires careful planning, design, training and
> > a motivated local team. As you said, you need a trans-disciplinary
> > team (health professionals, accountants, network administrators,
> > computer scientists, epidemiologists, ... ) working in sync.
> >
> > >We are planning to roll out the whole country if approved by Lao
> > >Government in a near future.Before that time comes, I have found
> > >GNUhealth is not type of
> > > "plug and play" application. it must be customized more or less to
> > > suit each country custom and law. We found one issue , then fixed
> > > them and here another one I need help with:
> >
> > > 1.In the hospital, we have 429 products (all categories) with unit
> > > cost price setup and associated account for each.
> > > 2. The Hospital charge each patient "category" differently, here
> > > how they call patient category: patient comes from 9-4,patient
> > > comes after 4:00 pm, and foreigners (from different
> > > countries).The hospital charge a 4-9 patient a fixed cost price
> > > of Peniciline of $100 (for example), then $107 for after 4 :00PM
> > > patient, and $119 for foreigners.
> > > 3.At Health_service we enter product, and quantity=119/100 for
> > > foreigner,and 107/100 for patient after 4pm.
> > >
> > > We cannot enter 1.19 or 1.07 into the qty field, can someone
> > > help? or how you would normally do from your experience?
> > >  Or we have to change qty to be a float value?
> > >
> > Product / services should be integers.
> > I think that you should be able to differentiate the product price
> > by using price lists, which are quite flexible and allow you to do
> > different combinations depending on the patient.
> >
> > Let's have an IRC meeting this Monday, so we can discuss in detail
> > and on realtime this situation, which I'm positive we will find a
> > solution :)
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > Best Regards;
> > >
> > > Bounmy Sihaphom
> > > mail. address@hidden
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Luis Falcon
> > GNU Health
> > Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
> > http://health.gnu.org
> >
> >