David (& Gary) David I frequently write Templates for our division. As Gary says, any Template a division supplies that is for MD, will work in BP. As you know MS has started releasing Vista operating system. BP has been tested & works with Vista - MD3 not tested yet & as far as we know it doesn't run on Vista
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gspurge Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 2:26 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Re: BP or not BP? David Pan wrote: > I would welcome more open discussion of BP vs MD3 > We are using MD2 at the moment and are thinking of upgrading software. > The inertial force of MD2->MD3 is strong, and being with the biggest > software installed use base is tempting (whenever divisions or whoever > release templates, its always MD). But some rumours I hear about MD3 > being almost as buggy as MD2 are not comforting. > > These diabolical descriptions of MD3 backup/restore are sounding like > ballroom dancing instruction lessons... > "The man places his left foot here and transfers his weight here, > turning this way..." > ... there appears to be no logic or intuitiveness. > > David Pan Hi David, I moved from MD2 to BP a couple of years ago. I had given up on the ever changing release dates for MD3. It is very difficult for me to compare MD3 to BP because HCN don't seem to give out trial discs of MD3 to non MD users (or maybe they just won't give me one). I can however confirm that BP doesn't need much in the way of support because it does just work. I do a test restore once a week. It takes about 30min (3Gb compressed database) and occurs unattended. I can test restore onto MSDE or SQL Server express systems. I don't need to own a second copy (or even a single copy) of MS SQL Server nor do I have to match volume names or any of the other nonsense which HCN users look like they have copped. BP program updates can be applied live as can data updates. I understand this is not possible with MD3. The BP interface is intuitive and the transition from MD2 to BP was a no brainer for my then 5 doctor practice. No one ever wanted to return to MD. MD2 templates can be imported into BP without difficulty and minimal needs to address formatting issue. (they are both RTF documents) I assume the same holds true for MD3. Usual serve to MD3/MD2 for its ads. Usual serve to HCN for their closed forum. (and no I am not going to apologise to them. The questions I posed to them about being able to extract my data from their program should have been asked and deserved a better answer than banning me from their forum). BP has the ability to run patients on a remote database (laptop or pocket PC). With BP I don't have that feeling that my data is locked in. Clinical data in BP is accessible by external programs via the BPSViewer ODBC login that uses the password set by the practice in configuration. A bulk XML export facility has been promised. I could not be reassurred that MD3 would offer that, but it is a long time since I asked With BP, the chief programmer replies to his emails, answers questions on his own forum etc etc. I should stop before I too, get accused of placing ads for BP. But if I just slag MD I get criticised in other quarters. As a MD2 user you are in a position that you should be able to demand a MD3 disc from HCN and test convert your data to see what you think. BP send out trial discs on request. I think you should trial both options and do so before you decide which direction you take. HTH Gary _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
