Version 3 of Tkfp Medical Practice Management

Updated 2003-06-18 01:59:06

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A large Tcl/Tk application that has almost everything a doctor needs to run a paperless medical practice.

  • Schedule
  • Demographics
  • Insurance Information
  • Accounting
  • Insurance claim generation and submission
  • Prescription transmission (fax based) and management
  • Drug database with drug interaction checking and checking against contraindications in patient's record.
  • Creating and managing office patient chart notes
  • Allergy, Past Medical History and Problem lists
  • XML database
  • Network server with Tk GUI clients.
  • Designed to run on Linux. Uses a number of Unix based utilities in some areas like RCS, a few small PERL utilities and one PYTHON module.

It is too big to post here. It actually is a large diverse collection of the best stuff I could find in Tcl that I could apply to the problem. I embedded several other large Tcl/Tk apps in it like TclHttpd, Browsex, Plume, and I used a lot of Tcl extensions, Img, tDOM, TclXML, Incr Tcl Tkext, SSLtcl and more.

I was thinking I would like to give it back to the Tcl community in turn for all the help I've gotten in getting it working. Perhaps some unemployed or under-employed Tcl programmers could make a business out of providing service and support for a program like this to physicians :-) .

I also was hoping some really good Tcl programmers might see what I was trying to do and figure out ways to do it better.


Alex Caldwell M.D.


Category Business Category Medicine