Re: application for counselling clinic

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 15:28 +0100, Gour wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking for some adequate open-source application to be used for
> tracking clients in small counselling/homeopathic clinic...
>
> I've tried several EMR applications like OpenEMR, GNUMed etc., but all
> those are quite specific for general practice medical doctors and bring
> too much details which we do not need.
>
> That's why I'm interested if Glom could serve the purpose of handling
> medical records of our clients which come either to the counselling
> session or for homeopathic treatments. The application would have to
> keep track of all the client's data like birth info, addresses
> etc. (contact management details) as well as record of all their
> clinical data like dates of treatments as well as notes which goes in
> their 'medical record' at every session (what was done during the
> counselling session, which homeopathic remedy is prescribed etc.).
>
> Moreover, we'd need search capability to find the client and their
> history, as well as to get some (basic) reporting capabilities.
>
> As far as billing is concerned, we plan to use something like
> SimpleInvoices (http://simpleinvoices.org/).
>
> For my other web purposes I'm trying to become familiar with Django and
> will therefore learn Python which may be handy for some Glom tasks.
>
> So, what do you think if Glom can serve the above purpose?

Glom does have those abilities and is generally meant to make it easy to
create such systems.

However, note that Glom is not very mature yet, so you might want to try
it out first and see what you think. But fixing Glom where necessary is
probably easier than writing something else from scratch.

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