@ Leslie and dj: I feel a little bad, because I am a Brother fan although I have never used them. I still find it hard to believe that it came in as a pdf. PDF is so worldwide you would think all faxes could come in that way. Just seems like an added step.
The biggest problem with AC and the imports is it requires an Access connection to correlate with the patients. If there were a way to have each patient automatically connect to the folder itself, it would be simple to have FAP dump everything into those folders and vice versa. Maybe with SQL it will be different.
I think Ed is already working on a way to have them work together. Of course, the code would be nice. Or an SDK. Combining FAP with AC would blow away UpDox. Just one click, and you're done. Plus, it's nice to have the importers deleting the unneeded pages and the duplicates. Remember everything in FAP is logged, nothing deleted is really deleted and everything in and out of the fax machine is archived. So it is pretty much idiot proof.
Leslie, you should be happy I gave your method 5 stars. Of course, FAP is 5 stars as well.
I can tell you Special Ed is out of control on programming and given SDK or code status could not only make 3rd party programs but also incorporated programs.
Our next project (although we have to keep debugging) is to make a standalone instant medical history, much simpler than the expensive version and customizable with branch logic. The branch logic is the hard part. So, you would be able to have a patient come in with high blood pressure or back pain and have your own set of history questions so you would ask them all and have a full paragraph ready to put into the different subject areas.
