I don't think they would pull the plug and we would be out a program. Pri-Med or another company would buy it. There have been many talks about working together to use the board to work with AC.
The problem, as I see it, is that AC hasn't made that their priority. In their defense, the has been a bad time to have an EMR with the government basically forcing Jon to incorporate things into his EMR that he would otherwise have not done. This is a lot more taxing on a small company.
I still think what Jon did (working full time in a FP practice while learning VB and/or C++) while literally designing what may be the best EMR ever made. Unfortunately, the program was and may still be a gold mine. This is just my opinion and Leslie's opinion, but I always wonder where AC would be as a company and an EMR, if the only goal had been to continue to improve it and quash the bugs that still hinder it. I think that when Jon worked full time, he must have thought well this isn't good so I am going to fix it. Do, they have doctors that work directly for them. I think it is one thing to hear from many doctors but spread all over without a vested interest; only wishes they would like to see. When Ed, my developer, and I developed F.A.P., VIPER and Amazing Labels, we worked on it five nights as week. He programmed during the day, and I told him the issues that night. Worked pretty well.
I don't want to think I don't like AC. I think it is a great program and, if I didn't have it, I would be lost. I still talk to quite a few people on the phone about the program, maybe with not quite the excitement and vigor. For me, it is somewhat like Windows without Outlook. Would it still be a great OS (minus the Linux worshipers)? Yes, and I would use it. But, I would be emailing Microsoft on a daily basis asking where Outlook was.
