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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:19:11AM -0700, Chris Travers wrote:

> As for minimally what LedgerSMB would need:
> 
> For each invoice:
> 1)  Patient's contact/billing info on a new patient
> 2)  Which patient is involved
> 3)  Identifier for the invoice......

Fairly easy to do.

> For each line item on the invoice
> 1)  An identifier for the part or service
> 2)  Any price adjustment factors (discounts, etc)

Unless 2) is implicated by 1). Is that possible with LSMB
(w/o resorting to the pseudo-items "address@hidden", "address@hidden",
... approach) ?

> 3)  Quantity.
> 4)  Notes (technically optional but should be sent for reasons of
> being able to track down "I don't know what to put here" scenarios)

No problem.

> > you mean clinical data or billable items ? This is about push/pull. 
> > Depending
> > on the flexibility of LSMB the EMR billing plugin would push data to LSMB 
> > and
> > maybe keep a reference on the invoice number (created in LSMB) and status of
> > said invoice (open for additional data, closed). But that would lure us away
> > form doing it inside LSMB and I imagine it to be hard to keep data 
> > consistent
> > (EMR pushing data into invoice which is closed/finalized in LSMB).
> 
> Honestly I would probably do this as an LSMB plugin, which would use
> dblink, DBI-link or similar to query the EMR db via a view.

I would not worry about such advanced matters AT ALL currently.

Karsten
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