Hey Al,
I think you should reach out to these folks and see if they wouldn't mind if you added a few of their screen shots to you larger CCHIT presentation. This thing is a blast and really hits the nail on the head in so many ways. As Nancy said, somebody had way too much time on their hands to put all that together.
Apricot,
"Follow the money." It always works. I hear that Deep Throat never actually said that, but that using such license really helped get the point across. And Al is correct in that these things are always more expensive forever basically which is why the corporate welfare model pisses me off all the more. Not only are we using either hospital money or tax payer money (like here in NYS, our Medical Society is in bed with the state and the CCHIT vendors) to give grants or pay for some or all of these systems initial costs, but in the end you the purchaser are always the one who is stuck with such a big hard to deal with program and complicated system. And we are throwing lots of money in forms of corporate welfare instead of assisting folks in buying nice little programs like AC that don't come with all this extra baggage.
If you all see Roy's newest post about Rx's and the AAFP, it is still my belief that we small offices need to form an organization that truely represents our perspective, because none of the present large national ones seem to be doing such. National Association of Independent and Solo Practioners (NAISP). What ya all think?
