dsamy wrote on Monday, July 08, 2013:
folks,
Is anyone integrated OpenEMR with Quickbook?
sami
aethelwulffe wrote on Monday, July 08, 2013:
No, but I have done a good bit with integration to Phreebooks.
http://www.phreesoft.com/?page_id=181
Frankly, Phreebooks documentation is limited, but the system itself is awesome. CPA’s I have introduced to it have fallen in love from the get-go. They seem to understand it immediately. Once they get used to the “always the same” interface (want a ‘new’ thing? You always click the “new” button in the same place on the screen), they seem to immediately understand how things work. That is now how it is for me, but the terminology and organization of it seems to be exactly how bean-counters think. This is obviously why the N00B user documentation is so sparse: There aren’t many requests for it. It does have an active community.
Main issue is that it uses php and mysql, and integration with OpenEMR is facilitated by compatible back-ends and access methods. Phreebooks, unlike OpenEMR, is a very well coded application, meaning that top notch developers can work with it easily, and us N00B programers are lost in the classes and methods and includes. Nonetheless, data can be migrated from OpenEMR billing to Phreebooks pretty easily. It is mostly just a matter of mapping data fields.
Quickbooks is not so friendly. The database is incompatible to a large degree. Import/export xml is rough, and it is closed-source. That is aside from the fact that the question “Which quickbooks?” and the associated license/payment/subscription crap constantly raises it’s ugly proprietary head.
aethelwulffe wrote on Monday, July 08, 2013:
P.S.
The FengOffice suite works good as framed application in OpenEMR too!