Bert I also got one of those letters. It came FedEx to make it look really special.
I have always believed that electronic medical records would eventually strangle the practice of medicine, and here we are.
I now have approximately five months left to practice medicine before I retire, and I'm unlikely to respond favorably to one of these blatant attempts to extort. Noted also that Greenway appears to have increased the price of "support" by 30% without actually doing anything to improve the product.
We have used MEDWARE successfully since about 1996, and I am sure it is not in compliance with rules that keep changing, especially since it's basically a DOS program with some early Windows overlays.
I am inclined to ignore all of this including the Amazing Charts database upgrade which I'm afraid to try based on some of the responses in this forum. Some of the more inflammatory language in the regulatory language from HIPAA suggest that we could be hit with $50,000 penalties or even jail time.
When I was a young and carefree country doctor in 1975 I thought the world around me was crazy. It seems only to have become worse--the only saving grace is that so far nobody has started a nuclear war
