Adam (FYI, that's our son's name),
You are going to be as bad for me staying too late talking tech as well as BULLCCHITT as Bert was.... lol. None the less thanks for your kind offer. We have two, one for Rx's only with the NYS paper in it and the main plain paper one for everything else. That main one which is a better and stronger model in terms of monthly duty cycles as well as lower costs per page because of bigger tanks is the HP OfficeJet 7780 AIO. It prints at a cost that is promoted to be a bit cheaper than the average laser. Whether that is true or not I'm not sure but it sure is pretty good on supplies for an inkjet.
It comes with a bundled HP software for pictures and other features that should cover some faxing. But unlike most middle to upper level Brothers I'm not to confident in it's ability to really do real PC faxing. The software is called the HP Solution center. We've always liked the longevity of HP's and until the install issues I had (Bert can clue you in) their quiet reliablity.
I bauked at buying the Brothers because the seemed to be not as good on supplies and in the end this is where they all try to get you. It's the cost of ownership over time thing. But yes having the real PC faxing would be sweet. The format the Brothers talked about for recieving the faxes also seemed a bit odd and so I wasn't sure that was such a good thing for something as important as medical information. The thought of getting a separate smaller Brother or something similar just for faxing has crossed my mind. It would take traffic off the all in one and if it would allow for most faxes to be digital instead of printed and in need of filling or scanning, then that kind neutralizes the long term cost thing if we were to purchase a modest cost one that would probably have only small tanks.
But if we can make the AIO work well for our purposes that would be great. Lastly, the packaged software although the quality it gives on scanning is fine even at low resolutions (200-300 B&W, not gray scale) like our get old charts in kind of things, it is slow as all hell and frequently one has to wait this really long time to re-open the software for scanning as you bounce from chart to chart to import various items. This is why we are still half paper which stinks. The idea of breaking down to finally get a decent scanner is probably more important than the faxing to some extent. We need to get rid of the paper once and for all. I also wish I had more nights to stay late and finally play with Bert's little program that he is so fond of.
But Nancy needs to stay late a couple of nights too to do her doctor, charting end of things. And that leads to the AC conference to finally have her sit with all the gang and watch how they seem to be able to chart at time of visit and point and click away. I sometimes wonder if she is just too annal about the details of the charting, but I am not a doc and I can not really tell her much about this. I get the feeling she could still benefit from more and better templates. It might be a pain for a week or two, but in the end it would help her win the war. I think I hear the sound of Branson a callin' us...... Hee Haw Doggie!!! It really would be great to have some of the other rocket charters sit down with her and review her way of doing things and give her pointers. Again, I'm not a doc so I'm not even sure where to begin on half of this. I also feel that she just can't bring herself to point and click, and type a bit in front of her "needy" patients. Female FP's really do get draining, needy patients that just are much more time consuming. I dare those AMA coding idiots and the CMS P4P A-holes to come up with a system the fairly and properly compensates folks like my wife for all of that.... BullCCHITT!
Anyway it is getting late, I need to get out some personal bills done, go home, eat some real food and get some rest. Thanks again and try to keep it simple if you can. At some point this old analog audio tech starts to be a deer with it's eyes caught in the headlights.... Thanks again for the kind offer. And I've got games to do in the late afternoon and early evening both days. And the NY Giants in the SuperBowl to run home for!!! Go Big Blue!!! Have a grea weekend.
Paul
