[consulting] Consultants that have deployed healthcare-related Drupal projects

[Karen Stevenson]

I have some background in healthcare database systems, all back in my pre-Drupal days (20 or so years in healthcare system of one kind or another). I think one of the biggest issues would be that healthcare data needs very robust and flexible access control - probably multiple kinds of field level access control -- and I don't know if that is going to be possible in Drupal. Public facing sites should be fine, since they wouldn't need that, but anything that is tracking private and confidential healthcare data could be an issue.

There used to be a group on gdo for healthcare, but it looks like it got deleted after inactivity, but someone has opened up a replacement at http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-health. It would be good to consolidate and document issues there rather than in an email list where it will all get buried.

Karen


----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com>
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers <consulting at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:57:40 AM
Subject: Re: [consulting] Consultants that have deployed healthcare-related Drupal projects

Ah, how many pages should I write on this subject?

Health care is a very, very broad term.  it includes everything from
genetic labs trying to figure out how to patent that* part of your
genes to a government bureaucrat determining payment rates for some
condition.  It is also *dramatically* different from country to
country.

I spent about 12 years in the managed health care "payment" side of
the various health care industries, both in the USA and Germany, as
well as supporting peripherally similar efforts by my co-workers in
South Africa and Hong Kong.  At my last employer, a health-care claim
clearing house of sorts, I was introducing Drupal as an enterprise
framework for our extranet of web applications.  I saw no serious
limitations to doing so, contrary to what Bèr Kessels wrote.

Boris, what segment(s) of the larger health care industry are you
interested in?  And in which countries?  I'd say I'm the resident
expert on the payment and management side of health care for the USA,
at any rate.  Sorry I can't point you at any externally facing
websites using Drupal, though.
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