I'm sorry if I confused you. I certainly do not know what is happening at AC, and from our number of posts, you know 10x more about AC than I do. I also do not want you to be pessimistic about AC, I'm not. Pri-Med and AC have every chance for success.
My point is that I do not think that AC development has decided to turn from a PM to the list of 81.
I think that last year they realized that it was not going to happen. They didn't have the money for either hiring the key talent to design and supervise the programming of the PM or to hire enough programmers to do the basic programming.
This is the team that built AC and probably expanded to accomplish CCHIT and Meaningful Use. So it probably seemed like they would be able to take the next bridge with a PM. But this was something completely different from a EMR, so they had to hire more programmers, which raised prices. Last year they realized that this was a bridge too far.
Successful people are willing to look at their failures completely and honestly so they can change. It is not every "man" who has had success that is willing to accept that they need help. This is my reason for being very hopeful for AC's success in the future.
I assume that as soon as the development team realized that v7 was not going to happen, they started to salvage their efforts to make 6.5
I assume that as soon as the Pri-Med purchase was complete and a plan was developed, new staff were hired that would do what it takes to graft in a purchased PM or make a perfect bridge to a preferred partner.
I assume that right now the final touches are on v6.5, and as soon as it is out the door, everything in the development team revolves around accomplishing v7.
To me that doesn't leave a lot of attention for the list of 81, unless there is plenty of money to do what it takes to do an overhaul of AC.
We can be hopeful that Pri-Med understands that they purchased the most usable small practice EMR, and will invest in keeping it that way.
