A lot of providers on this forum have expressed disappointment with linking AC with Office Ally. Others are frustrated with X-Link, especially the pricing. We are having a company work with AC on linking AC with Medisoft to provide an integrated PMS...but the company (PracticeChoice) is trying to determine if there is a demand for such a linkage.

X-Link is pretty pricey, especially if there is more than one provider in the practice. So, I'm looking for feedback to see if providers would be interested in an alternative linking program to link AC with Medisoft if the pricing was more reasonable (approximately $500-$700 per practice).

And a second question would be if providers would be interested in a hosted Integrated Solution (AC with Medisoft linkage) if there were no linkage fees from the 3rd party (only AC's $500 linkage fee).

Any feedback would be appreciated so PracticeChoice can determine if it is worth continuing development.

Steve

I'd like to see AC complete version 5 and get on with the pmr package

No
Office Ally is free.
It has its quirks but I am satisfied with them.
If a PM is in the works from AC, it is worth waiting for.

AC and Medisoft integrated together would be great!

We have used Medisoft for about 5 years, and AC for 8 months. The X-Link was expensive, but has worked very well. But... today I got a call from our Medisoft vendor that the electronic billing interface that we have used will stop next year, and to use a new one will require upgrading Medisoft from v11 that we have to the newest version, at a cost of over $5000.
Obviously we would prefer AC to introduce their PM system during the next year before that would happen, or find a new interum billing system that is less expensive. If anyone has thoughts on this I am open to them.
The only thing constant in life is change.

I have been using medisoft and double entering. I would love an interface. I am a solo doc and only have Medisoft Advanced, Xlink is only available for Medisoft Network Pro. If you develop an interface make it to work with all Medisoft versions(basic, advanced etc.) I recently tried Total Md, but couldn't get it to work.

Hi Vicki:

I agree- Office Ally is a great deal!

I finally got my lowly MS Access EMR hooked up with Office Ally after discussing the link with several reps over there. Most told me that the "best" way to do it was by printing out an HICF form to MS Window's Start-> Printer-> Add a Printer-> Generic-> Generic/Text Only driver. The only thing is that THIS DOESN'T WORK!

Finally I got a techie to recommnend the use of MS Excel using/filling out their report. I uploaded it to here- http://www.box.net/shared/oo2ujvy7yn If anyone is interested, I can go into the VBA code... it's not that difficult. You do have to have a table to store your billing information and one for insurer information, but that would be most of what you'd have to add in.

At the end of the day, once it's filled in with patient data, you just have to upload it to the Office Ally. Free. Direct. Simplicity at its best.

Cheers,
Al

I am waiting for AC PM module..

Yup, but it's nice to know that you'll eventually be able to do it from within AC! Going through Excel is the way to go...

Al