On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:23:46PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote: > For example if you already register patients in a satisfactory > scheduling and billing program it is possible to "push" the patient's > registration information into GNUmed (or to switch to GNUmed and > "pull" it in) It may or may not be so. This isn't by any means guarantueed !
> and then conduct your clinical work inside GNUmed. That's the plan. > So I would suggest the supporters of GNUmed, inside each country, > identify a commercial vendor that is willing to let its own partial > solution (scheduling and billing) inter-operate with GNUmed. This has proven intractable so far here in Germany. > A proven approach has been taken by OSCAR McMaster which, for > prescribing, deployed an instance (correct term?) of drugref and > after populating it with a Canadian inventory of drugs, wrote hooks > from OSCAR for prescription-writing. That's how it's intended to be done. We should/will do it that way, too. > So with a suitable prescribing module, installations of GNUmed in > Canada could share access to that same server. One drugref server per > country might serve the needs of multiple clinics using different OSS > EMRs. Sure. However, it'd be fairly easy to setup one's own drugref instance. Once we are working on prescription functionality we'll be setting up a public testing drugref server, too. > re appointments: There's, well, not exactly a plethora, but quite some choices for that. Appointment handling is a generic horizontal application. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
