Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote:
The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult
to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to
HCN's Microsoft.
Making assumptions about data, especially something as important to a
business as billing data, is fraught with danger.
For all their foibles, the UK's National Programme for IT (the
_enormous_ and mostly disastrous IT programme of the NHS) started
specifically by defining data formats and open interchange, the idea
being that they can chop and change suppliers if necessary. That really
should be the starting point here too.
There are a few different aspects...the Medicare rebate, credit card payments,
health insurance claims, the patient's medical
information and practice accounting stuff. This would involve integration with
the Tax office, Medicare Office. There is also an aspect of managing patient
medical information.
There is some info about the NSW E-Health record project, yes NSW
not VIC, here:
<http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/index.php?env=-categories:m2120-1-1-8-s-0&reset=1>
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