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Hello,
I work at an ophthalmologist office, and we're looking to see if there are any others using AC as well. One of the things we're looking at is connecting our Ziemer Galilei G2 to AC. The company is willing to build the connection so it can talk to AC, but since we're the only customer asking for it, they're charging us about $15k.
I was curious if there were others that have a Galilei and would be interested in sharing the cost so we all can be able to import exams directly from the machine.

Garrett,
I have used AC since 2008. I have never really had any need to have our instruments directly interface with AC. We constantly use our Atlas, Lenstar, Octopus and Cirrus, and simply import all data and reports into AC as a PDF file. In this manner, the reports are easily referenced. My lens calculation software ( Holladay surgical outcomes assessment program ) imports data directly from my Lenstar, making critical IOL transcription errors a thing of the past. The only interface I had created was between our practice management software and AC, which cost about $4500. 15K for and individual instrument interface seems ridiculous.

I agree with the price! It seems QUITE high, but that's what they quoted me.
We do also have a Cirrus OCT, and it can easily save PDFs to a network location, where we can then import it into AC. However, the Galilei is very locked down, so you can't do very much to it. Accessing network locations is a no-go. It does have the capability to save a PDF to a flash drive, so there's always that route.
The company said that they could build an interface for AC, so that you could "click a button, and have it be automatically imported to the patient chart." This would be very convenient, but not for that price, hence my looking to see if anyone else out there would be interested in having that capability themselves, so the price per person would be more reasonable.
-Garrett

Just a thought, but if you could print this PDF file to UPDOX then it could be easily imported without an interface to AC...