Sounds like a job for a co-resident Database, where multiple applications feed into a single database and "transactions" can move from one application to another.
I don't think Gnucash is necessarily the right starting point for this marriage, but I could be wrong. Some of this might be doable with the Invoice and Lot handling that is/will-be in CVS. -derek Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am interested in tracking medical insurance claims. As far as I can > tell, gnucash doesn't really do this, and it's not an active project. > Is that right, or have I overlooked something? > > Does anyone have any thoughts about whether it would be appropriate to > add something to do this to gnucash, and what approach to take? > > Note that this area involves three quite different domains: > 1) writing and receiving money (i.e, gnucash's core function) > 2) tracking the submission of insurance claims, with the many > complexities attendant to that (multiple rounds, multiple insurers, > copayments, etc, etc). > 3) tracking health and illness, doctor visits, immunizations. > > Since the U.S. is the only industrial country without national health > insurance, area 2 is probably of only limited international interest. > Lucky you if you don't live in the US and have to deal with the > incredible swamp of our health/insurance system. > > I think this is kind of an interesting design problem, as it > represents a kind of problem that has its own set of requirements, but > has some overlap with gnucash. It would be nice to avoid the hassle > of having to enter information twice in two separate programs. But, > as I say, I'm not sure if there's a good way to do it. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
