Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-05-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Reviving an old thread, I just found this site: http://gplmedicine.org/ -- "The thing he [Bill Gates] realised about the windows was this: because they had been converted into openable windows after they had first been designed to be impregnable, they were, in fact, much less secure than if t

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Wilson
David Guest wrote: Ken Wilson wrote: But they do have to keep it for 7 years plus, for the taxman, I thought it was three years for the tax man but you could be right. and in medical negligence court cases it can be 21+7 years plus. I don't think financial records are relevant to medical ne

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Wilson
David Guest wrote: Brad Thomson wrote: It's not only the data retention requirements that feature in this type of software, but depending on the exact nature of what the business does, ongoing funding compliance. I have just come off the back of a painful 5 months facilitating the introduc

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread David Guest
Ken Wilson wrote: But they do have to keep it for 7 years plus, for the taxman, I thought it was three years for the tax man but you could be right. and in medical negligence court cases it can be 21+7 years plus. I don't think financial records are relevant to medical negligence cases. There

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread David Guest
Brad Thomson wrote: It's not only the data retention requirements that feature in this type of software, but depending on the exact nature of what the business does, ongoing funding compliance. I have just come off the back of a painful 5 months facilitating the introduction of an industry-sp

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread Brad Thomson
On 06/03/2008, at 9:05 AM, Ken Wilson wrote: [...] But they do have to keep it for 7 years plus, for the taxman, and in medical negligence court cases it can be 21+7 years plus. Most would have the backup disc and just hope someone could read it if ever required. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread Ken Wilson
David Guest wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: In this case it's much more than billing data - we're talking about sensitive medical records that meed to be managed and interchanged in ways strictly defined by guidelines and legislation set by governments and various other authorities. Actua

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread Ken Wilson
David Guest wrote: The most successful electronic medical record (EMR) packages in primary care have been written by doctor programmers. To date non-programmer doctors have been unable to articulate their requirements or have misunderstood the technology. Most EMR packages use MS SQL as their

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread David Guest
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > In this case it's much more than billing data - we're talking about > sensitive medical records that meed to be managed and interchanged in > ways strictly defined by guidelines and legislation set by governments > and various other authorities. > Actually, despite th

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread david varnes
* Armin Marth wrote, On 03/03/08 15:03: [snip] Now, this type of software is the perfect candidate to be on an open platform (which some medical practices use Linux to store a flat-file database on), and with simple google seaches I've found some open-source Medical Billing/Appointment book prac

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Ken Wilson
Marghanita da Cruz wrote: 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, e

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 05/03/2008, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
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 import

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:18:21AM +1100, David Guest wrote: > Armin Marth wrote: > > Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, > > Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be > > exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out),

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread David Guest
Armin Marth wrote: > Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, > Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be > exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but > the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into ano

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Wilson
Although people are the same everywhere, and diseases vary a bit between regions, medical software is country specific. 4 areas 1 Accounting and practice management. Each country has its own laws so accounting and tax vary in each country, and tax is changed each year, also each country has di

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-03 Thread Tony Sceats
> > > Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, > Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be > exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but > the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into another > medical

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Has anyone found anything for Australia; I'd be interested in following > the development for a Linux/multiplatform open-source practice management > suite suited to Australia's medical/Medicare standards. Have you looked at Medsphere, and whether or not it could be improved to cover Australia

[SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-03 Thread Armin Marth
Hi, I work in tech support on the Medilink Assist national help desk supporting MedilinkXP (Medical Billing with eClaims / Appointment book software) and Medilink Clinical (Clinical Progress notes, Pathology requests and Medical Script prescriptions for patients software). The Medilink practice m