Guys,
The issue is if and when we use the new billing lady see may "never" be on site at all and she does not have her own dedicated machine here. She would be a private contractor working from her own home office on her own machine. But I want to own and control the data and the database she is building with us. Much like Roy and our concerns about whether or not we own the program our charts are in, we want to own the program our billing and other PM stuff is in and for the same exact reasons. It is my wife who in three years from now who is going to get audited and will need to be able to answer for her bills and charting, not some software or billing company. Also we want to be able to see in real time what is going on, who has deductables left, we can record the copays at time of service so the biller can see and incorporate what we have been doing here on site, and many other similar types of things. So no the billing lady can not remotely fly her own computer because the only computer she will have is her own computer out of her own office off-site on the other side of town (next county north actually).
Two: The computer Nancy would be using from home would most likely be her here in office laptop taken home to do homework, so again can can't really fly her own machine remotely. If and when I finally buy a new computer for the home, I want my kids to be able to use it for their homework and stuff and not to have to worry about Nancy and the kids fighting over computer time. So again I was hoping Nancy could simply bring her laptop back and forth and connect to a small network I would create at home.
I'm really trying to not have to purchase a whole extra fleet of computers just so folks can access stuff remotely. That seems really over kill to me... If I understand you correctly, then I would need a matching machine here in the office for each and every remote accessing computer. And all the clients are for the moment wireless, so I think that between the remote connection and all the other things in the way things might get pretty slow except for the one person logged on to the main P2P server which is hardwired to the router. This why the whole VPN type thing seemed to make the most sense. Am I making this clear enough now??? Or am I missing something here myself???
I'm just not in the mood to try and find some new network "guru" who sets up some funky system that we are forever dependent on him anytime things get a little weird. All the local network gurus seem to like to make themselves permentent fixtures in your life all while not setting things up secure enough either; screw that noise. That is why we are P2P instead of server too. This I can do without spending months here every night learning a major new set of tech skills, get it?
Perhaps I am trying to get too much while putting out too little but I thought it was worth a shot. But by having some sort of a VPN like thing directly to the actual P2P server I thought I could allow 2-3 people to securely access and build a single database on our system that we own and control so we can always have access to it when we need it or want it. Can I have my cake and eat it too???
