For a small office and "not so tech-savy" doctor, Windows Home Server has been outstanding so far and VERY easy to use. I bought the HP home server for around $600 with two 750 GB hard drives. I love that for that amount of money I have somewhere that backs up every workstation (including my office manager's quickbooks) every night and a place where I can share anything and everything simply. It's a very simple file server.
I have also set up my faxes and scans EERILY similar to Leslie's PaperPort folder set-up. I put the shared folders on the server and created folders for each office person. I taught my front office person how to unstack and save my faxes into PDF files and put them in the appropriate folders (Import, For Me to Review, etc).
Did we ever figure out how to bring the faxes directly in as PDF files with the Brother 7840? or are we stuck with the TIFF files?
I digress: Home server also made updating AmazingCharts simple as I downloaded the update file and put it in a shared folder on the server. No more dragging around USB flash drives or having to download stuff on each computer. Of course I could have just shared a folder over the network too.
Bert: My office really loves the simplicity of Amazing Charts. How many EMRs out there can your office staff just get on and schedule patients, import driver's license, import faxes, and enter all of their demographics with about 5 minutes of teaching? The answer is very few. I trialed EMRs until I was blue in the face and AC is the simplest. I have set-up my entire office's computer network and it has worked flawlessly so far (knocking on wood).
