Michael Christie wrote:
Hello to all,
Thankyou to the correspondents regarding the batch file.
May I ask colleagues opinions on another matter.
We have a standard medical setup for a 6 doctor practice. Server linking
to workstations.
An allied health practitioner who rents a room wants to put her MYOB
program on the frontdesk computer so the reception staff can bill her
clients for her and receipt them via her preferred program MYOB. This
will save her time entering her own data into MYOB.
Currently our staff collect her money for her at the frontdesk via
EFTPOS and cash and we give her a manual record other day and she takes
it home to put on her computer for record purposes.
We use Totalcare practice mx software, and quickbooks for accounts (not
running at the frontdesk)
Obviously technically this can be done and installed on the computers at
the frontdesk. We have appropriate backup and failure proceures in place
for our own software and computers.
However I have some reservations regarding having other peoples
financial software on our computers, the possibility of losing her data,
what happens if our computer fails with all her accounts on it, and also
staff may keywrong data into her program, the Allied Health person would
need to spend more time at the front desk instead of in her room
checking her accounts etc.etc.
Technically this can be done.
But may I ask my colleagues, *_should_ *we do this for her?
What is your opinion?
Michael,
I would have though this should be a business decision for the practice,
in terms of current front desk workload, staff-time to be charged, staff
training, extra staff hire, etc.
My physio uses a MYOB application that looks and works just like one of
the familiar GP practice management packages, so if she has such a MYOB
application it shouldn't be too hard. It will cost her, not you.
The only technical issue is that the MYOB data needs to be stored on
your/her server and part of a proper backup routine for everyone's piece
of mind. MYOB and Quicken still seem to have these bizarre backup
routines for the company files designed for floppy disks which are way
out of date.
Greg
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Greg Twyford
Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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