Wrong,
I have access to the program and even if I move to another program I can still open the old encounters with this copy of a program all I want and need. Are you really so blinded by your own side of the table here, or are really trying this hard to sell us all a package of goods???
Tell me there is no difference between the disks I own and hold in my hand for QuickBooks or Office, verses an ASP rent it or loose it model and I can see your nose growing even thru the fiber and coax my friend. You are entitled to your own slanted perspective, but please don't blatantly lie to all of us, we have seen this all before and we know just how one sided it is. If I own a valid copy of XP and then a copy of any of these programs that run on it, I can use that program for another fifty years or until I can't find working hardware that they can run on.
Matter of fact we are doing this right now. We have an old laptop with XP on it and a valid copy of the old charting program we used to use. Every now and again we have to boot the sucker up to access data from some old encounter or to copy a record for a patient or doctor. We can do this practical forever. Now why on earth would I want to change this paid up front and never paid for again relationship to one that I need to pay a small ransome for that same forever time, just to be able to comply with state and federal law, not less do the right thing and protect access to these old encounters for doctor and patient? I can never leave you because you literally have us by the
b@ll$. Where as in our case we have already moved on, live and let live. We now longer purchase support but the program is ours to keep, to have and to hold and legally do with as we please.... No future costs unless we need to purchase some support at prevailing rates. Done, period short the end.
We on this side of the business of medicine are used to many people from all sorts of sides in this industry coming at us, to use us as a conduit to what they believe is their money. Sell us goods and services that are obviously and firmly not in our own best interest no less those of our patients. Personally I have developed a pretty good sniffer and BullCCHIT meter, and these ASP models, stink to high heaven and back again.
But I must admit if I was some selfish, greedy vendor I might want to pull this one over on folks like us too. Your model certainly puts the vendor in a most enviable position; so I guess we all know where your morals lay.... Nice to know you too. Now at least I know never to turn my back on you...
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
