But on a serious note, as I've have said for years we don't want to be the cause of shooting the golden goose who is laying our eggs here... Keeping AC alive, viable no less profitable is in all our own self interests. I too have pushed and strongly believe in a use any clearing house you need to or want integrated PM module side as I was one of the first advocates of such a thing so many years ago...
As opposed to have two different version of AC for those of us who know the Terminator references to CHITT and govt and private corporate intrusion on medical privacy are not all that far fetched, I would simply like a radio button in the Set-up features of the Admin section where we of good conscience can choose whether or not we care to be part of big brother's brave new medical world. Perhaps even allow for such a choice button to be available in the demographics section so each patient, parent and guardian can freely choose whether or not they care to join in this most massive invassion of privacy designed mostly during the wonderful previous, con law, civil rights respecting (gag, cough, cough...) Bush administration....
As for what to pay... Yeah I guess us soloists should have to shoulder a decent share of the costs involved... But don't tell me that each and every doc in a larger practice doesn't benefit from each improvement to the end product and it's functionality and more or less than a soloist does or does not now... Right? Perhaps each doc should have to pay the same amount as an annual user fee, with then the tech support being done in bundles of slightly decreasing in nature since AC does stand to benefit a bit from servicing 10 docs all in one service call... Although I would gather that the more folks mucking around in the works the more likely it is that someone in the office is gonna eventually make a boo-boo somewhere along the line... So even that is not a sure bet or estimate... Only Jon and his folks would know for sure how those numbers pan out in terms of support needed per doc or license as compared across the size of a give group... They've got the data to support this or not.
But I want to see AC get every last penny that they deserve because it is a wonderful product for all the reason we have all stated here for years... We all do better as Jon and AC do better and now he and his team are busting it big time to try and help us all stay current with all this gov't mandate crap all while still actually improving the darn thing and trying to stay true to the original vision Jon had of reasonably cheap cost with great ease of use, with almost all the features any small office should or would need..... that's a pretty tall order as now they have to attempt to keep the buracrates and some of the baised hi-tech judges of what is CHITT and what is not happy too...
So I say let's all pull together and not defend our own little piece of turf too stronly but instead let's find a good middle ground so we can take good care of the most important thing here, the actual product that is AC and its continued growth and success. With keeping that in mind as our mutually held goal, we can help to make sure that innovators like Jon and AC can and will have to be accommidated and integrated at the table and therefore us too, as all this CHITT comes sliding down the pyke aimed squarely at all our heads, doctors and practices.
To AC and let's find some ammicable way to share these cost fairly and in everyone's mutual best interests.. but that depends on what you view as what is honestly in your own best interests, now doesn't it??? Be well...
Paul
"Beware of the Medical Industrial Complex" "The Insurance Industry is a Legalized CARTEL"
