Here s a "what if" question...

Suppose that what we are hearing is really the death rattle of AC as we know it? After all, you can't realistically sell something and demand that the new partners keep your vision...
What happens if we just keep our version 6.3 running indefinitely without support?

As we are not in the group that looks to meeting government mandates and MU, I can only think of a few things, given a probable 5 year horizon and no need for a huge change in the operating system:

1) Electronic prescribing might quit. This would be a nuisance, not a catastrophe.
2) UpDox might no longer be there for us. A much bigger nuisance.
3) We might not be able to import labs from Quest. We could revert to faxes.

What else am I missing?

David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands