sunsetsystems wrote on Friday, December 09, 2005:
I just wanted to mention that Andres is working on some very cool stuff to solve all of our billing problems. :-) See:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1375545&group_id=60081&atid=493004
There’s room for more help, like coding a X12-to-1500 translation module.
– Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com
ajperezcrespo wrote on Friday, December 09, 2005:
How about importing x12 formatted files into OpenEMR? Most billing apps that I’ve seen create x12 files and store them permenantly prior to transmition. If this is possible it will simplify migrating. But considering that some variations may and will exist the import process should be based on true to the letter x12 formats.
sunsetsystems wrote on Friday, December 09, 2005:
I’m not sure I understand. Do you mean importing X12 claims? It seems to me OpenEMR would not be able to do much with them that is interesting.
– Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com
ajperezcrespo wrote on Saturday, December 10, 2005:
Medical billing system X12 files will have patient data (Name, address…etc) and encounter info, if we could import them re-entering all old patient data would not be required.
Alfonso
sankar1234 wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
Though we can import the demographics and current encounter, the previous encounters, PSFH, allergy, medications can’t be imported. But they have to be re-entered, Right?
drbowen wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
My son wrote me a couple of PERL scripts that imported all medications, allergies, surgeries, medical problems.
I depends on the complexity of the data that you are trying to import and how well it maps onto the current database table structure.
Sam Bowen
drbowen wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
Ultimately this would help move toward a PHP-MySQL only practice management system?
sunsetsystems wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
Mainly it would make the billing process faster and more straightforward. I envision keeping the SQL-Ledger interfacing, and or course that’s a Perl app and uses PostgreSQL… however there’s nothing to prevent someone from coming up with another solution for A/R.
– Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com
sankar1234 wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
Bowen :
So for practices who have the billing files stored somewhere, we can effectively use them as Input to this perl or any program to populate the mySQL database. The problem of scanning old paper charts could be reduced in no time. Is this a valid claim with some guesstimate?
drbowen wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
SQL-Ledger is a nice accounting packacge. It is not and never will be a practice management system.
Practice Management Systems are not accounting systems.
Sam Bowen, MD