John Squire spoke to the meeting in Laramie, Wyoming organized by Indy and BestForYourPractice. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion with the group via Skype, he made the statement above and spoke on a number of relevant issues, with extensive Q and A. Here are a few other items of interest:
1. "A priority is releases delivered on time; high quality releases that perform as expected".
2. V6.6 is the highest quality of recent releases
3. AC is looking at "building-in" the New Crop functionality to improve the e-rx experience.
4. He has not finalized his thoughts about AC in the cloud, but "all the major EMR's are moving that way".
5. MU2 is a major focus with a release coming early next year. ICD-10 will include a "major educational effort" with a release later in 2014.
I don't mean to give undue priority to the statements above; he covered a wide range of issues, and these are just some of the ideas that stuck with me.
He seemed very "tuned-in" to the concerns of users, especially after such a short time at the helm of the company. The consensus of the group seemed to be that some concerns about AC's future were allayed, and to quote one attendee, "this might be the right guy to take AC where it needs to go".
