Case studies
Customer
The customer is a pharmaceutical company who wanted a hosted solution
for online clinics. Clinics purchase drugs online so the pharmaceutical
company could have quicker turn around and more orders. At same
time, the application enables clinics to perform following online:
administrate doctors and patients, dispense prescriptions, process payment online with credit card, adjudicate prescriptions instantly, maintain
inventory and adjust drug properties, submit healthcare claim forms.
Challenges
• 20+ roles/permissions to control various parts of the application:
enable/disable, show/hide various parts based on set of roles that
logon users carry.
• Create PO online and send to pharmaceutical company by automatically
generated formatted email.
• User must be able to interactively fill in a pdf-formatted
healthcare claim form called CMS1500 online, and post the data to
server just like a html form. We have not seen anyone else has done
this before. We are unique in this feature. The saved data should
be pre-loaded in the form if user wants to view it later.
• Application should handle carriers, processors and state
fee schedules.
Approach and Solution
BiContinental chose ASP.NET/C# for this project. Backend is MS SQL
server 2000 containing 60+ tables. Extensive triggers and constraint
were used to enforce referential integrity. Various configuration
information was saved and read from configuration file so that it offered great
flexibility to configure the application at deployment time. Crystal
Report was used for reporting. Clinic users were able to print out
various sticker labels and barcode labels online. Pdf files were
generated on the fly and users could fill in and submit them interactively
with browsers.
Benefits
• About 100 clinics are using this application now
• Client was in complete control of the development process,
progress and resources. The team size and workload had been adjusted
several times throughout the project life cycle per client request.
• Excellent communication skills and mutual collaboration
made the problems solving process quickly and smoothly.
• The development costs were slashed
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