FreeB Billing .06 Alpha Available

Everyone, I am proud to announce the availablility at http://www.freemed.org/FreeB/FreeBv.06.tgz of FreeB .06 Alpha medical billing software. There are two big improvements to the code.

1. The XML-RPC interface is working. This is what the API will be based on. In order to test the code you need to run the Practice Management Simulator that is included in the tar. This is essentially a beta reference implementation of the FreeB API. So I am curious to see what everone thinks!!

2. The X12 support now generates code that passes the X12 certification tests. Once I have tested with a broader spectrum of data, I will apply to have FreeB certified as HIPAA X12 compliant. That will be a major milestone for FreeB.

Complete text of the announcement follows.

Everyone, I am proud to announce the availablility at http://www.freemed.org/FreeB/FreeBv.06.tgz of FreeB .06 Alpha medical billing software. There are two big improvements to the code.

1. The XML-RPC interface is working. This is what the API will be based on. In order to test the code you need to run the Practice Management Simulator that is included in the tar. This is essentially a beta reference implementation of the FreeB API. So I am curious to see what everone thinks!!

2. The X12 support now generates code that passes the X12 certification tests. Once I have tested with a broader spectrum of data, I will apply to have FreeB certified as HIPAA X12 compliant. That will be a major milestone for FreeB.

This version is the first version that other projects could actually use to bill. You can begin the development effort to support this system using this code! All you have to do is replicate the calls that the Practice Management Simulator does, and you can have your data generate X12 and hcfa files. There are some things that are still broken about the API. But the general calls are there. In the next couple of weeks the API will be finalized and there will be some billing targets
available. I think we will try for “Web Printing” for the HCFA files and support for at least one of the clearing houses autoload functions.

This will be the last release until the API is finalized, which will be the last release before the .1 release which will be the first fully functional release. That version will support logging, etc etc.

If you have not already contacted me about using FreeB in your project, please let me know. I will be soon compiling a list of projects that intend to use FreeB!

Thanks,


Fred Trotter
SynSeer

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