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Using Windows XP... you won't be compliant!
Merry:
Funny thing is that all the offices here (Stanford etc) use XP. WE have known about the cut off for years. Isn't anyone listening?
Merry
Billing2:
--- Quote from: DMK on January 16, 2014, 03:48:38 PM ---Okay. Here's my rant for the month >:( I am SO fed up with being forced to change crap yet again! HCFA forms, coding, software, electronic claims, uploads, downloads, now I have to buy new computers for new frickin' operating systems. Doesn't anyone realize that it all costs money, and lots of it? The public complains about health care costing too much, but this is all part of it! We can use our hands and brains to provide the ACTUAL care, but the tools required to just file a damn claim keep having to be changed again and again! GRRRRRRR!
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I'm right with you DMK. >:( >:( >:( >:(
RichardP:
This is an attempt to be useful. If it is inappropriate, someone can take it down.
We have a 12-computer network that is connected to a 75-computer network - all individual doctors and staff, not a doctors group. I have never purchased new computers for our network. Always used. I get a computer, plus the operating system, for less than the cost of the operating system (roughly $250 - $350 per computer). First group of used computers lasted about eight years. They would have continued being useful, but they were Win2000 and I needed WinXP. Have had the used WinXP computers for about 3 years, and am getting ready to replace them with newer used computers that have multi-core and Win7 - because we will be upgrading to a Win SQL-Server-based practice management system that benefits from multi-core. (Our dinosaur billing software will not be upgraded to print to the new CMS Form come April 1.)
For those who have WinXP and would like Win7 for HIPAA compliance, this might be an inexpensive way to make the switch. I am using the Dell Optiplex 745 - so that is the page I am linking to here. You can back up to the home page and explore other stuff if you want. They have a huge warehouse just south of Los Angeles. I picked up my computers in person, but they will ship to wherever you are.
http://www.insightsystemsonline.com/search.asp?keyword=dell+optiplex&search.x=0&search.y=0
My guy is:
Michael Amodeo | Insight Systems Exchange | ph-714.622.3181 | fax-714.751.3613
| cell-203.819.0458
If you are curious about the practice management system, here is the link. We are not getting the EMR, so we will shell out around $7,000. Full system is around $15,000, but EMR and Practice Management share a single database. And it has pop-up notes, which we need due to the complexity of our billing (labs and radiology, etc.)
http://www.mdsuite.com/practice-management
(They are in a suburb of San Diego. Kareo is in or is close to Irvine, CA - about halfway between LA and San Diego, give or take.)
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---Full system is around $15,000, but EMR and Practice Management share a single database. And it has pop-up notes, which we need due to the complexity of our billing (labs and radiology, etc.)
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You mean each client has their own database right? Just clarifying.
I'm still scratching my head as to why vendors don't move to MAC.. it's an awfully well known FACT they are more secure. I'm GUESSING it's costs. Good thing MAC doesn't put costs ahead of quality unlike Microsoft. I moved from XP a long time ago as it was a horrible OS.. with each new version of Microsoft Windows comes NEW problems.. even Microsoft servers leave a lot to be desired with functionality and security. Sorry.. JMHO
shanbull:
Annnd of course no one at our clinic had any idea. This is great. 100% of our computers run on XP.
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