HockeyRef you are absolutely right in your assessment of the state of our business management system, sort of. It is antiquated, but we don't use AC for anything but charting, and scheduling patients. Our practice predates Amazing Charts by a fur piece, and we only started with Amazing Charts one year ago. Our business plan is long established and makes no use of our 'intranet'. We track expenses the old fashioned way, by review of the quarterly reports the accountant prepares. (And gets paid a bunch for!) Our only concession to technology is a check writing system that helps balance the checkbook and allows the accountant to oversee the assignment of accounts. We do fine on getting the taxes paid, but it is all the old fashioned way. Our expenses and operating overhead is pretty close to a fixed cost. (Big savings this year, an MA who had been with us over twenty years, retired!)
There are 3 Docs and 16 employees, so it is a little too big for a Quickbooks or other afterhours solution.


Martin T. Sechrist, D.O.
Striving for the "Outcome Oriented Medical Record".