I had the most fun with the 'what ups with tech support' post in this problem discussion since the last 4 years. You have to read it. One thing we need to remember that AC needs to move forward to survive. AC is small and being small not much can't be done till someone taking over, even Jonathan might still retain his president title. I don't know if his passion to built a great software is still intact after 10 years. An enterprise level software, the direction AC is going is getting too complicated for a smaller company. AC needs fusion of capital or to be bought out by higher end EMRs.
We have many tech experts in our forum, even they are docs but like I said before in other posts, docs are special breed, because they are smart, always there exceptions of course. They can out program a 'good' programmer and be equal with 'great' programmers. Jonathan is one.
To build something better, most the time you have to scrap the old and build a new one. AC being small doesn't have the resource to do that. So a patch here, a patch there, adding couple additions trucking in from elsewhere, connecting to another .... using patch copper wires instead of fiber optic wires and wires hanging high above instead of burying it underground.
Back to programming, do you think AC can afford the most skilled IT architect for a million dollar a year salary... probably not... so Jonathan needs to involve himself as AC tech lead. That time is longer gone with the degree of sophisticated and he is not that young anymore. Think about Bill G at start of MS.
So enjoy AC while you can and be ready to convert when times come or to the point you want to jump. But even then headaches still abound. Can you eliminate bacterium by advice patients to taking full course of antibiotic? full course or half course, bacteria sill there and would evolve to more deadly strains. So ultimately we need to design a perfect human body with disease resistant body to survive or perfect program to avoid headaches.
I just watched a documentary about alligators. Evolved thru million of years, most deadly bacteria mean nothing to alligators. Florida docs know this best.
I knew of some local docs willing to pay 10 K couple years back and go with larger vendors. Same like Bert's new system upgrade. We are fooling ourselves to think that old time still with us.
David is still one of my top favorite docs in the forum, per his new quote about a rich man needs to be satisfied with his lot. My addendum to that is when that rich man is no longer satisfied with his lot then buy a new bigger lot and be ready to be taxed more. Any doc in the forum taking high blood pressure pills?
