I have a friend in Canada who has been doing networking for 35 years. Strictly Microsoft. He is always blown away by the fact that doctors do not want to invest in their networking when their entire patient data is at stake. His analogy, which is obvious, is if you told your a patient that you were worried about pancreatic cancer and recommended an MRI (sorry if it is CT), and they opted for a plain film, you would go nuts.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the conversations I've been in with doctors where they yell at me for how expensive the $1200 laptop or $900 workstation I'm recommending is as they walk past the "Copay due upon arrival" sign in their office on their way out the door to drive away in their BMW/Lexus/Mercedes.
JamesNT
I would have to say this is the most offensive statement I have seen on these user boards to date. You have the nerve to come onto these user boards and make a generalized slam like this against physicians?! You do realize sir that it is ILLEGAL for me NOT to collect copays? If all the physicians you deal with drive a Lexus, then most likely it is because they are the only ones who can afford your service. The number of BMWs sitting in the physician parking lot at the hospital has been few and far between, with lower reimbursement and more and more "necessary" ancillary services that the government now mandates.
You would appear to have the same mentality as my accountant and insurance salesman and just about every one else, believing that all physicians have tons of cash and know how to do nothing other than medicine. Then the usual tactic is to scar the pants off the said physician, convincing him how he needs to purchase all this insurance/computer hardware/retirement plan/etc to avoid doomsday. JamesNT, you may be the best IT man in the world, but after a comment like that, you have zero credibility in my book.
And thank you Jon for you post on doing this and "spending NO money" - this is the reason I have been using AC since version 3. AC has always been about the fact that just because it costs more doesn't make it better, and we can't solve all our problems just by throwing more money at them. In Mohamed's situation, people are talking sbs2008, terminal servers, user cals, I mean, come on people. To use an analogy similar to above, that would be similar to me seeing the teenager for his ingrown nail and ordering an MRI, bone scan, 4 days of IV antibiotics in ICU, and an amputation....
I'll jump off my soapbox now, I need to get home anyway...hopefully my 2001 DODGE CARAVAN will start this time...
