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

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2011, 10:31:57 schrieb richard terry:
> On Friday 20 May 2011 16:32:12 Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'll  give up contributing to the thead as I'm obviously too out of
> touch.

We have the same problem in Germany. What I am trying to understand here is to 
find out what exactly the technical difference is between a ledger being 
bolted on to GNUmed vs. ledger features being integrated into GNUmed.

You might have a point which I don't see yet. Are you saying it is technically 
inseperable or because most physicians would be unable to cope with a barebone 
ledger ?

What information can or should not be transfered to a ledger ? Is there 
anything technically that can only be done when replication the whole billing 
stuff inside the "EMR".

I have a feeling you are talking about the ease of use part and your opinion 
seems to be that for most  AU doctors the proposed solution will be 
unacceptable.

Is that it ?

> AU is obviously different.
> 
It is. And so is Germany and India from what I hear. One would have to write a 
GNUmed plugin for AU, Germany, India, US. Then one would have to write 
connectors for online claiming.

The solution I am after involves a generic way to capture what was done and 
what was used in terms of material , hand this to a specialized claim mangler 
solution and let that claim handler cope with each health system.

Is this unacceptable for AU ? In your software do you think it is possible to 
reuse the item capturing part to fit the US or German setting ? If so that 
could prevent us from making it overly complex.

Regards,
Sebastian