medflex replies part 2
J Bindi
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Title:
medflex replies part 2
Creator:
J Bindi
Date:
6/13/2002
Text:
DON'T GET MEDFLEX! WE HAD IT FOR 3 YEARS AND IT IS NOT USER FRIENDLY. YOU
HAVE TO CHANGE SCREENS ALL THE TIME. THE SOFTWARE YOU SHOULD LOOK AT IS
FUTURA. FUTURA IS COMPLETE WINDOWS AND IT IS SO EASY. WE DO ALL INS CO's
EVEN MEDICAID ELECTRONIC. SWITCHING TO FUTURA WAS THE BEST THING WE EVER
DID.
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I have been using Medflex since August of 2001 and have found it to be very
user friendly. The reports available are easy to use and understand &
everything seems to interact really well. I had been on Spectrum at a
previous facility and I have found Medflex to be much easier to work with.
The support staff @ Medflex are more readily available and helpful as well.
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Just my little $.02 here...Medflex itself is not a bad product or compnay
as far as I can tell, BUT...
if you have a custom UNIX program that works, and a decent UNIX guru to
adminster it, I would consider it just about nuts to switch to anything
Microsoft based. Every upgrade is a potential disaster, the systems
gradually corrupt themselves over time, and the security issues can be
overwhelming- you may need more IT manpower just to keep up with critical
security updates, etc. than you do now. You place yourself at the mercy
of a merciless company which likes to build in more and more
incompatibility with any other system and has enough of a monopoly that
they have no incentive to tend to quality issues in advance; they have
just been letting the users take it on the chin and they'll patch it
later. Don't do it just for the sake of being modern or having a
prettier interface unless you also like the idea of being locked into an
endless stream of forced upgrades and little possibility of ever getting
all your data out in a form another system could use.
As you can guess I am NOT a fan of Bill Gates, his tactics and products
have made a huge mess of my ability to use computers to get my work done.
All the promises of ease of use have been pretty empty, since it is NOT
easy to fix and gets itself broken, even without much in the way of user
error to blame it on. My dad used to negotiate his way around a Novell
system with removable hard drives, etc. etc....only to be lost as a goose
when Win 95 and up messed up on him...he has pretty well given up and I
don't have much hope of ever getting another e-mail from him or sending
him digital pix of the grandkids without printing htem out on paper first.
The capabilities of this ancient UNIX mail program I am using still beat
the pants off any of the graphical mailers I've tried, plus the viruses
are easy to see and delete. Just my opinion..
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We have used Medflex since 1997 and are very pleased. We have 6
offices (all connected to our central office computer). We previously used
PerfectCare for our AR and Great Plains for our General Ledger. The
conversion was almost painless and I am not sorry we changed. I like the
idea of having one integrated system - and so does our accountants. The
Work In Progress has helped tremendously - practitioners can review a report
that shows them all of their open jobs with documentation regarding the
status of each (i.e., waiting for authorization, etc). The new windows
screens are a great addition - I can't wait until the whole system goes to
being windows based.
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If you are looking to change systems and are looking for a True 32bit
Microsoft Windows and SQL solution you may want to contact
David Chertoff of
MOS Healthcare Systems
(800) 486-1667 x 134
They are the original developers of the MOM and POP system for orthotics and
prosthetics that was distributed by SPS for many years. You can ask to have
an internet demo scheduled at a time convenient for you.
HAVE TO CHANGE SCREENS ALL THE TIME. THE SOFTWARE YOU SHOULD LOOK AT IS
FUTURA. FUTURA IS COMPLETE WINDOWS AND IT IS SO EASY. WE DO ALL INS CO's
EVEN MEDICAID ELECTRONIC. SWITCHING TO FUTURA WAS THE BEST THING WE EVER
DID.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have been using Medflex since August of 2001 and have found it to be very
user friendly. The reports available are easy to use and understand &
everything seems to interact really well. I had been on Spectrum at a
previous facility and I have found Medflex to be much easier to work with.
The support staff @ Medflex are more readily available and helpful as well.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just my little $.02 here...Medflex itself is not a bad product or compnay
as far as I can tell, BUT...
if you have a custom UNIX program that works, and a decent UNIX guru to
adminster it, I would consider it just about nuts to switch to anything
Microsoft based. Every upgrade is a potential disaster, the systems
gradually corrupt themselves over time, and the security issues can be
overwhelming- you may need more IT manpower just to keep up with critical
security updates, etc. than you do now. You place yourself at the mercy
of a merciless company which likes to build in more and more
incompatibility with any other system and has enough of a monopoly that
they have no incentive to tend to quality issues in advance; they have
just been letting the users take it on the chin and they'll patch it
later. Don't do it just for the sake of being modern or having a
prettier interface unless you also like the idea of being locked into an
endless stream of forced upgrades and little possibility of ever getting
all your data out in a form another system could use.
As you can guess I am NOT a fan of Bill Gates, his tactics and products
have made a huge mess of my ability to use computers to get my work done.
All the promises of ease of use have been pretty empty, since it is NOT
easy to fix and gets itself broken, even without much in the way of user
error to blame it on. My dad used to negotiate his way around a Novell
system with removable hard drives, etc. etc....only to be lost as a goose
when Win 95 and up messed up on him...he has pretty well given up and I
don't have much hope of ever getting another e-mail from him or sending
him digital pix of the grandkids without printing htem out on paper first.
The capabilities of this ancient UNIX mail program I am using still beat
the pants off any of the graphical mailers I've tried, plus the viruses
are easy to see and delete. Just my opinion..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have used Medflex since 1997 and are very pleased. We have 6
offices (all connected to our central office computer). We previously used
PerfectCare for our AR and Great Plains for our General Ledger. The
conversion was almost painless and I am not sorry we changed. I like the
idea of having one integrated system - and so does our accountants. The
Work In Progress has helped tremendously - practitioners can review a report
that shows them all of their open jobs with documentation regarding the
status of each (i.e., waiting for authorization, etc). The new windows
screens are a great addition - I can't wait until the whole system goes to
being windows based.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you are looking to change systems and are looking for a True 32bit
Microsoft Windows and SQL solution you may want to contact
David Chertoff of
MOS Healthcare Systems
(800) 486-1667 x 134
They are the original developers of the MOM and POP system for orthotics and
prosthetics that was distributed by SPS for many years. You can ask to have
an internet demo scheduled at a time convenient for you.
Citation
J Bindi, “medflex replies part 2,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/219081.
