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Hello Everyone,

Bert suggested that I write a small introductory post and, after thinking about it for a moment, it makes sense to do so as to most of you I'm probably some new guy who suddenly jumped on here giving computer advice.

My name is James Summerlin and I live in Wilmington, NC. I work for Professional Data Management, Inc. as the sole person in charge of Information Systems and Software Development. I graduated college from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (www.uncw.edu) with a bachelor's in Computer Science and have been working with computers in some form or fashion since 1996.

Almost all of my experience is with Microsoft technologies. Back in the 90's I was all into Linux and open source but after years of watching flame war after flame war on the usenets, Microsoft leaving Linux behind in the dust, and overall open source just not living up to its promises I decided to abandon open source and join the Microsoft camp. While MS clearly has some issues it needs to address, overall it gets the job done and I'm happier here.

I decided to become interested in the AC forum because we currently have 8 clients using AC. So far, AC appears to be one of the more favored EMR's and it seems to be one of the easier ones to maintain from a networking standpoint.

Some of you have figured out by now that I work for a billing center. Have no fear, I have no intention whatsoever of trying to push our services on this forum. I am here in a technical capacity only.

If anyone has any advice on how to better integrate myself with this community, your constructive criticism is most welcome. Please PM me. Bert and Indy have already been most helpful in those regards (thank you both!).

I hope the ideas I share on this forum will help some of you. Despite the fact that in the world of technology Logic is supposed to dominate and everything should eventually boil down to a 1 or a 0, the world of technology seems to be more complicated than the US government. Amazing how that happens.

I look forward to making new friends here.

JamesNT

Welcome James and thanks for being here!

Thank you for your help. Either technologically or psychiatrically the shift to electronic has me in need of significant help on an almost daily basis, and yours s much appreciated.

By the way, you can see my articles about computers and how they work in BC Advantage Magazine. www.billing-coding.com

JamesNT

Welcome! We appreciate you joining and helping out. We have some active topics in the Problems forum that you might be able to address - it seems we all share certain difficulties with AC.

Again, welcome aboard!

Welcome and nice to have you here.

It's good to have IT experts on the forum. It would be nice if AC central more consistently gave feedback.

So far, your responses seem a voice of reason and that is both helpful and reassuring.

James, glad to see you here,and I'm sure your insights and knowledge will be of great assistance.

The Doctors that you meet on this forum are some of the most thoughtful, inquisitive, and intriguing individuals I have met in my entire professional practice.

If you are of a mind to learn, you will learn an amazing amount about the practice of medicine, and how these folks get it done.

Welcome. Always glad to have those in the know about the tech side available.

I agree. I enjoy this forum more than any other for this reason. (Also frequent automotive and craft brewing forums, but the folks are a little different there.

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I look forward to learning from everyone here.

JamesNT