A real-time medical assistance billing system

Abstract

To further improve the urban and rural medical assistance system and make it much more convenient in the emergent case, we designed and developed a real-time medical assistance billing system for Linchuan county civil affairs bureau. This system consists of two medical assistance models, one of which is real-time assistance model that realizes a “seamless combination” of the civil affairs assistance system and the two existing systems: the rural cooperative medical care system and hospital billing system. It provides the direct settlement for the medical assistance at hospital, thus solving the problem that some poor people have no money to pay the bill for the medical treatment. This paper begins with the introduction of the design guideline of the medical assistance system, followed by the design of the system function modules. Furthermore, it presents the detailed solution to some key technology in the system, including system deployment, data security and data consistency problem of the civil affairs bureau database and the hospital database and so on.