Splitting up REST services work on pharmacy

[John Stoecker]

Hello pharmacy group, 

We have a few free cycles and are getting more volunteer developers -- what specific resources for pharmacy can we start making REST services for? Ideally these resources would be fairly standalone and not dependent on others.

thanks,

-john

[Jeff Hung]

Hi John,
 
How about trying to make the following tables with rest services?
 
There is no purchasing capability for drugs in either openMRS or iDart. One possible process flow:

• Drug ordered from vendor. I assume vendor can be different than drug manufacturer. Need Drug_PO table and Vendor table.
• Each purchase order (PO) generates one record in Drug_PO table.
• The PO also generates one or more records in the Drug_Inventory for each batch of each type of drug.

The vendor table is the most isolated. 
 
This whole area could eventually be developed into a purchasing system with PO's generating records in multiple types of inventory tables.
 
Maybe there is already a purchasing system.  Then this would be redundant.  However, we need to develop a handoff between that system and the openMRS to support the PO Details on the New Goods Receipt screen (page 26 of V4 wireframes).
 
Let me know what you think.
Jeff
 
 

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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 13:22:59 +0530
Subject: Splitting up REST services work on pharmacy
From: johnst...@gmail.com
To: jeff...@ieee.org; raxa-jss-e...@googlegroups.com; nun...@gmail.com; natha...@gmail.com

[John Stoecker]

Jeff,

This is great. I think I will set a team on creating the Vendor table and Drug_PO table, exposing them to REST. (We will worry about generating records in Drug_Inventory when this piece is complete)

Thanks! Hope your progress on the other resources needed in REST is going well, hope you can give us an update tomorrow.

-john

[John Stoecker]

Ah. Sorry to flood everyone's inbox...was just thinking, Vendor is just a location. We can add contact name/number as part of the address, no new work needed on this. Instead, will have a team work on Drug_PO and Drug_Inventory

-j

[Daniel Pepper]

(looping in Roger, whose knowledge of OpenMRS might be helpful here)