You've ask a bunch of unrelated questions.
Websites are good way to both educate your patients as well as give them access to forms and such. When you add forms and portals, that is NOT basic. Giving them hours, practice info and background info on providers is, in my mind, sufficient.
A portal to your electronic chart brings all sorts of requirements for security. It is much easier not to have it compared to the information you gain. I would not want the risk that they could jump the firewall and have access to my data. I have no knowledge of AC planning on adding it into a future version, but then..
You need to decide what you want in a website first. There are a lot of web designers and programs to design your own. It's not bad that he drives his own business if you gain from the revenue or he designs your site inexpensively. Quid pro quo.
