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quote:Originally posted by Nick Harrington This TOPIC has been locked by emrupdate.com. The owners & moderators of emrupdate.com request that no further posts relating to Dr Notes, Inc. are submitted. New topics relating (specifically) to Dr Notes, Inc will be deleted by the moderators of this forum. Please note that all existing posts will not be removed as they have already been placed in the public domain. Nick Harrington info@emrupdate.com Nick I am saddened that you decided to close this topic. I have not had anything more informative and entertaining in a very long time. I doubt it is very productive, in reality it is as Donald Trump would say, actually keeping Dr. Notes in the public eye. Maybe we here at eMedRec need a scandal so we can get more of the word out. By the way, really sorry that I missed out on the Scotch. Regards, Brendon Brendon Holt President http://www.holtsystems.com eMedRec Medical Records Made Friendly "If it wasn't for that last minute I would never get anything done." | Post Points: 5
quote:Originally posted by Brendon Nick I am saddened that you decided to close this topic. I have not had anything more informative and entertaining in a very long time. Brendon, I have been informed that this topic is NOT closed at this time. So, I have been given special permission to post the following additional material, given to me by "an undisclosed source". Good old Jeff wanted the "scoop", and the scoop is exactly what he got: South Florida Business Journal You saw the online version of Dr. Notes, but there's much more in the print edition. Listed below are the multiple sidebars. The print edition has this story on the cover, plus three inside pages. It includes a timeline, a picture of Angela, a diagram of lawsuits per year and a chart of company actual and projected financial performance. If you'd like to see it, call 954-949-7600 and ask to order the Oct. 7 issue. It's a wall-framer! Gov. Bush once gave kind words Four years ago, Dr. Angel Garcia's company was hailed as a job creator eligible for $2.14 million in incentives and tax credits. Gov. Jeb Bush touted the company's promise to bring up to 471 new full-time jobs to Pompano Beach, rather than accepting an offer from Oceanside, Calif. An article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said Bush called Datamed Forms & Software CEO Garcia to congratulate him. Datamed was poised to collect $341,320 in incentives over four years and earn tax credits worth $1.8 million over 20 years. But while some agencies were poised to give Garcia money, others were chasing after him. Palm Beach County and the state departments of Labor and Revenue had already filed at least 18 liens against the company and its CEO. They totaled into the tens of thousands of dollars. Broward County doesn't look at a company's tax history before offering incentives, said Norm Taylor, director of the Broward County office of economic development. State and county tax liens are examined before checks are actually cut, but federal tax liens and judgment liens aren't reviewed. "We do enough due diligence to know that the company at the moment the incentives are awarded is alive and operating and has the ability to go forward," Taylor said. The Florida Department of Revenue checks companies for criminal fines, civil fines, civil penalties and credit rating before handing over state job growth incentives, said Enterprise Florida spokeswoman Erin Heston. Instead of moving to a 271,000-square-foot plant in Pompano Beach, Datamed was evicted from its Deerfield Beach offices in 2002 and moved back to Boca Raton. The company expanded to about 160 employees in summer 2004 before being evicted again and downsizing to about eight employees in early 2005. Datamed never collected the incentives. A name switch from Angela to Angel A Jupiter resident's lawsuit over a $100,000 loan states that Angel Garcia misled the lender about his credit history by not mentioning his legal troubles under the previous identity of Angela Garcia. In his lawsuit, Farid Alex Sobhani said he was a foreign medical student with about $100,000 in savings for college when he met Garcia and his then-wife Mardjan Barimani at a social occasion in 1997. Garcia said he wanted to add a mental health clinic to his Boca Raton-based Long Life Wellness Center and talked of a $1.5 million profit in its first year, Sobhani's suit alleges. The lawsuit said Sobhani was invited to the couple's home about 15 times that summer and Garcia told him, "You're the younger brother I never had." Sobhani's complaint said he signed a deal to loan the money to Garcia in exchange for a $150,000 employment contract. But the state rejected the application for the clinic and the lawsuit says Sobhani never got the job or his money back. Sobhani said he could no longer afford to attend medical school in the United States. "What they did to me totally changed the direction of my life," Sobhani said in an interview. Before signing the deal, Sobhani, the president of importer Grand Industrial Trade, investigated Garcia's legal background to verify Garcia's claim that he had outstanding credit, according to the complaint. He found only one lawsuit under the name Angel Garcia. The doctor said it was a dispute over furniture. Sobhani's complaint said Garcia didn't tell him that two years earlier he had legally changed his first name from Angela to Angel. "When I searched, I saw Angela Garcia and I saw the document said female and I thought it was a different person," Sobhani said in the interview. "How was I supposed to find out this man used to be a woman?" Sobhani won a $218,500 judgment in April against Garcia and North Arlington Investment Group, a company state records show was once associated with Garcia and directed by Barimani, but Sobhani hasn't been able to collect. Court records show Garcia and Barimani won a default judgment for $220,436 in 2000 against the since-dissolved corporation. Elisabeth Henderson, owner of Buy-Rite Office Furniture International, fared better. She won a $47,796 judgment against Angela Garcia and her company in 1993. After waiting through bankruptcy, Henderson secured payment from Angel Garcia in 1999. "I thought with what I did that it would shut them down," Henderson said. "But with her change in personality and identity, people couldn't check up on her." Pitches talked of potential riches for Dr. Notes investors Even though his company endured years of losses, Dr. Notes managed to stay afloat by securing at least $13 million from 409 investors by one count. On Oct. 5, 2004, four months after its independent auditor expressed doubts about Dr. Notes' ability to stay in business, Garcia wrote a letter to prospective investors saying the company had become profitable and was expecting explosive earnings growth. He said Dr. Notes signed an agreement with two financial companies to go public and raise $10 million. Investors could buy shares for $1.50, while Garcia projected a secondary offering 12 months later would be $5 to $7 a share. He projected Dr. Notes would have $75.3 million in sales and $21.4 million in profits by 2007. He compared it to the financial performance of another public company in his industry that was trading at $48 a share. "Management of Dr. Notes, Inc. believes that our stock will be trading at the same level in 2007," it said. Whether a company is public or not, its financial statements and projections to potential investors need to be carefully reviewed by qualified financial experts, said Jim Sallah, a Boca Raton attorney who formerly worked in SEC enforcement. In a Nov. 15, 2004, letter to doctors owed money, Dr. Notes VP Jeff Greene said the company had accepted an offer from an international financial group with $17 billion under management to merge with one of its public companies. Doctors might want to convert the money they were owed to Dr. Notes' stock at $1.50 a share, he suggested. "Please keep in mind what some of Microsoft's millionaires made on accepting stock in lieu of pay," Greene wrote. Dr. Notes never had an IPO. Former Dr. Notes sales manager Robert Olmedo said he accepted 50,000 shares of Dr. Notes in lieu of pay after seeing the letter and now he feels misled. Garcia's fundraising stretches back 14 years. A list of 303 shareholders obtained from Dr. Notes' records indicates the company raised $5.3 million from 1991 to 2000, amid evictions, lawsuits, tax liens and Garcia's personal bankruptcy, which included the company's creditors. The list shows investors included doctors, Garcia's father, company employees and their family members. Jeff Reimer, who owns an Illinois construction company, bought shares for $1.6 million in 2000. He didn't return calls and a fax for comment. Don Childers, a former state senator from West Palm Beach, bought $30,000 of stock in 1992 and got back $12,000 in 1995 as part of a lawsuit settlement. "They didn't want to do things I felt they needed to do to market the product," said Childers. Rosa Maria and Arnaldo Sanchez, a working class couple from Miami, said they had no idea Garcia recently went through bankruptcy under the name Angela when their family invested $10,000 in Garcia's company in 1996. If they had known, Rosa Maria said they wouldn't have bought the 2,000 shares. "How could we have known?" she said. "We were presented with an Angel Garcia, not an Angela Garcia." Garcia owned 70 percent equity of Dr. Notes' stock, he stated in his October 2004 letter, and some of it was in an offshore company and in a family trust. The company already had $13 million paid in capital with 409 shareholders, Garcia wrote. Dr. Notes' audited financial statement distributed with Garcia's letter stated there was $13.8 million in paid in capital as of Dec. 31, 2003. In Garcia's February 2004 marriage settlement agreement, his assets included Cimatech, a Cyprus corporation that owned 3.34 million shares of Dr. Notes and a trust for his daughter with 1 million company shares, which were subject to a $2.5 million lien owed to Dr. Notes. Whether Medical Business Enterprises, Garcia's Turks and Caicos company, held stock wasn't clear Lawyers seek to garnish Dr. Notes' bank accounts Claimants with judgment liens have filed subpoenas for Dr. Notes and CEO Dr. Angel Garcia to provide information that could help them collect, but those requests, for the most part, haven't been responded to. Garcia didn't show at a deposition scheduled for September by Miami attorney Robert Solove, who's trying to collect on a $98,952 judgment lien for client De Lage Landen Financial Services, an equipment leaser. "I wasn't surprised" that Garcia didn't show, Solove said. Dr. Notes' bank accounts have been garnished twice in the first four months of 2005, but a Business Journal check of court records found no other successful garnishment has been recorded since. Even though the company continues to operate and bill doctors, some creditors have stopped being aggressive, because they believe the company to have no or little money. Attorney Christopher Mertens filed the $87,252 judgment lien of Dr. Edward Temple, of Richland, Wash., in Palm Beach County in July 2004 and assigned a collection agency to secure payment from Dr. Notes. A year later, he gave up. "My client does not want to spend good money going after bad money," Mertens said. "It is difficult, expensive and time-consuming to chase people like this down." Former employees, doctors and other vendors said Dr. Notes owes them money but they are reluctant to sue, because they believe they'd never collect. Dr. Notes never paid R&R Productions for selling it about $6,000 worth of company logo shirts in 2004, said Ronda Blum, owner of the Rockaway, N.J.-based company. She decided against filing suit. "Why should I waste more money on them?" Blum said. "It would be just more paperwork for my attorney and nothing for me." Garcia's medical practice went Chapter 7 Angel Garcia was born in Cuba in 1952 and came to the United States in 1961, according to the Dr. Notes Web site. Garcia received a medical degree at Mexico's Universidad Autonoma in 1979 and completed internal medicine training at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1983, his biography states. The latter university confirmed that an Angela Garcia trained there at that time. Garcia founded an internal medical clinic, Angela M. Garcia MD PA, in Boca Raton in 1984. By 1993, the medical practice had faced 21 lawsuits and tax liens, according to Business Journal research. It declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy that year with $976,914 in claims. Garcia's corporate biography said he stopped practicing medicine in 2000 to concentrate on his software company. Angel M. Garcia MD PA was dissolved by the state on Sept. 16, 2005 after the annual report wasn't filed on time, according to the State Division of Corporations. I have confirmed that this material was written by reporter Brian Bandell, South Florida Business Journal, but I am not at liberty to disclose how it came into my possession. Robert Gleeman, Medical Journalist for EMR Update.com Email: robert@emrupdate.com Tel: 1-650-968-6359 Skype and ooVoo user name: robertgleeman EMR progress is a matter of fact. EMR Update supports your right to know. | Post Points: 5
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quote:Originally posted by uslic001 I hope Dateline or 20/20 or 60 Minutes picks up this story. It is like watching a soap opera unfold. This is definitely worth a TV pilot! Can you imagine what goes on behind the scenes.....that which is not known? Chris Wilkerson, D.C. Carson Doctors Group TabletPCs in Medicine Editor-in-Chief www.MedicalTabletPC.com Home: www.Digital-Doc.com | Post Points: 5
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quote:Originally posted by krazykorg Sweet Jesus! This is like entering into The Twilight Zone! I knew Angel Garcia and Mardjan Barimani are crooks but I had no idea of the magnitude of it all! The pure fact that they made a lot of money on the backs of clients and employees and left us all out in the cold is nothing short of a pure disgrace! Garcia fancies himself as a God-Fearing "man" but went to such lengths as to change his gender in order to deceive others and make a nice profit for himself (and for his ex-wife, Mardjan). I've been to Mardjan's home and I will tell you that it is not too shabby. It tears me out of the frame to know that she lives in that place while ripping people off left and right! My question is how can this happen? How can people come to this country (Angel was born in Cuba and Mardjan was born in Iran), screw clients and employees out of their hard earned money, and continue on with no consequences? They took money out of my checks to pay for medical insurance and never paid the premium. That's stealing! They took money out for my taxes and never paid them. That's stealing! I traveled on their behalf and spent MY money going on implementations for them and they never paid me back. That's stealing! And the list goes on. There are a lot of people out there who got the shaft far worse than I so I can't complain too much. Regardless of what or how much they took, how can our government, who is supposed to be watching out for the "small guy", allow this to go on? Hopefully, thanks to the diligence of Brian Bendell, this will all come into light so that Garcia and Mardjan Barimini will one day soon face some consequences for what they have done. I WILL be there to see it, as well!!! Mark my words! That's okay Jim, I have now been sent 2 letters from their new atty to return stolen software and client lists...neither of which exist or have ever been in my possession. So not only are they stealing from doctors and employees, still not paying my last 3 weeks worth of pay, but I'm still getting screwed out of money since I HAVE to pay an atty to defend myself against them..............you have absolutely NO idea how irate I am over this right now! | Post Points: 5
Originally posted by dr. d If anyone has dealt with Dr. Notes please email me at dradeluca@optonline.net I would like to compare experiences.[xx(] Repost. Aside: optonline is the best cable internet provider in North America. Great stuff. email: | Post Points: 5 Posts 65 Points 980 Reply elsie replied on 10-31-2005 8:38 AM rated by 0 users Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. Is anybody else in this boat? This is extremely scary with an organization as shaky as Dr. Notes. Earlier this month, callers attempting to get their current activation code were greeted with an "all circuits are busy" message and the Dr. Notes website was down. (Both the phones and the site are back up. The problems were attributed to Wilma.) A while back, some Dr. Notes users received an e-mail from former Dr. Notes employees who are now working for a competitor. The e-mail contained a solicitation to switch from Dr. Notes to the competitor. Does anyone have this e-mail, and if so, would you be willing to share it with the group or with me? Thanks. | Post Points: 5 Posts 4,572 Points 70,237 Reply gchiu replied on 10-31-2005 8:58 AM rated by 0 users quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. Graham http://www.synapsedirect.com/ Synapse - the EMR for the superior physician | Post Points: 5 Posts 5 Points 25 Reply MADMAX replied on 10-31-2005 12:54 PM rated by 0 users Elsie, This is what I "heard". Note: Some of this info is not first hand and I have no way of verifying it, and some is true, but you could at least try. Dr Notes CLAIMED that the leasing co required the need for the key code. Fact: The reality is that the leasing co does not care whether or not there is a key - you borrowed money from them and must pay regardless (it works just like your mortgage - it is not the banks fault that you don't like your new house or did not live in it, you must pay every month). Dr Notes told tech support and many others staff members that the leasing co required the key and that was what was the info passed on to clients. Also, older clients may remember that a key was not always required. Dr Notes actually sent out an "update" to clients and included this new feature so they could get an idea of how many practices were still using the software. That could be a whole other thread, but I won't go there. UNVERIFIED: So how do you get a permanent key? Well according to one practice. They actually called the leasing co and had it confirmed that they did not require the key code. They then somehow contacted Garcia, and he told them that all they had to do was send an official letter. I do not know if they did get a permanent key, but as I said before, you can always try. Good Luck | Post Points: 5 Posts 3,419 Points 45,554 Reply Robert Gleeman replied on 11-01-2005 3:16 AM rated by 0 users quote:Originally posted by gchiu quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. It proves to me that no one is immune to, nor protected from, this type of predation. This is a crime with many victims, and harm has been done to the EMR industry as a whole, which includes patients. I hope we all learn as much as possible from this terrible thread, painful as it is to contemplate. Robert Gleeman, Medical Journalist for EMR Update.com Email: robert@emrupdate.com Tel: 1-650-968-6359 Skype and ooVoo user name: robertgleeman EMR progress is a matter of fact. EMR Update supports your right to know. | Post Points: 5 Posts 30 Points 1,110 Reply bbandell replied on 11-15-2005 2:05 AM rated by 0 users New from the pages of the South Florida Business Journal: http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/11/14/tidbits1.html?page=3 No quit in Dr. Notes Despite having faced 117 lawsuits, owing about $1.2 million in tax liens, and now suffering another garnishment, Dr. Angel M. Garcia and his businesses aren't ready to throw in the towel. Dr. Notes, his Boca Raton electronic medical records company, was reinstated as a corporation in Florida on Oct. 18, meaning it once again can do business here, after being delisted on Sept. 16 for not making an annual filing. The company's registered agent was changed from Corporation Services Co. in Tallahassee to Mardjan Garcia, the ex-wife of the CEO. The fee to reinstate a delisted corporation is $600, according to the Florida Division of Corporations. Also reinstated are the nonprofit Dr. Notes Research Foundation, with the CEO changed from Angel Garcia to current wife Maricarmen Beltran, and Angel M. Garcia, M.D., P.A., which is based in Dr. Notes' corporate offices. Remaining delisted on a state Web site Nov. 9 was Datamed Worldwide, which owes $1.03 million in federal tax liens for unpaid payroll taxes on the nearly 140 workers it employed for Dr. Notes. Of that tax debt, $677,300 has been accessed against Garcia personally. According to state and federal court records, Garcia and his companies owe $3.41 million in judgment liens and are facing 20 pending cases seeking a total of at least $997,000. One creditor is trying to levy his judgment lien on each of Garcia's homes in Delray Beach and Doral. On Nov. 1, De Lage Landen Financial Services emptied Dr. Notes' account at Regent Bank in Boca Raton with a $15,050 garnishment, according to court records. It was the first successful garnishment against the company since April. Miami attorney Robert Solove said his client, a Pennsylvania-based equipment leasing company, is still owed more than $100,000. "We're happy that we got something from this," he said. "It's better than a lot of people did." - Brian Bandell | Post Points: 5 Previous | Next Page 14 of 17 (246 items) « First ... < Previous 12 13 14 15 16 Next > ... Last » | RSS ©2008 emrupdate.com. All rights reserved. | Acceptable Use Policy | Proud to be supported by the following EMR Vendor Sponsors: eClinicalWorks | DescriptMED | EMR Experts | Medical Office Online | NextGen | SynapseDirect | TSI Healthcare Getting Started | Forums | Medical | Blogs | Interviews | Unique Visits ISP Providers | Timezones | Contact Sales
Repost. Aside: optonline is the best cable internet provider in North America. Great stuff. email: | Post Points: 5 Posts 65 Points 980 Reply elsie replied on 10-31-2005 8:38 AM rated by 0 users Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. Is anybody else in this boat? This is extremely scary with an organization as shaky as Dr. Notes. Earlier this month, callers attempting to get their current activation code were greeted with an "all circuits are busy" message and the Dr. Notes website was down. (Both the phones and the site are back up. The problems were attributed to Wilma.) A while back, some Dr. Notes users received an e-mail from former Dr. Notes employees who are now working for a competitor. The e-mail contained a solicitation to switch from Dr. Notes to the competitor. Does anyone have this e-mail, and if so, would you be willing to share it with the group or with me? Thanks. | Post Points: 5 Posts 4,572 Points 70,237 Reply gchiu replied on 10-31-2005 8:58 AM rated by 0 users quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. Graham http://www.synapsedirect.com/ Synapse - the EMR for the superior physician | Post Points: 5 Posts 5 Points 25 Reply MADMAX replied on 10-31-2005 12:54 PM rated by 0 users Elsie, This is what I "heard". Note: Some of this info is not first hand and I have no way of verifying it, and some is true, but you could at least try. Dr Notes CLAIMED that the leasing co required the need for the key code. Fact: The reality is that the leasing co does not care whether or not there is a key - you borrowed money from them and must pay regardless (it works just like your mortgage - it is not the banks fault that you don't like your new house or did not live in it, you must pay every month). Dr Notes told tech support and many others staff members that the leasing co required the key and that was what was the info passed on to clients. Also, older clients may remember that a key was not always required. Dr Notes actually sent out an "update" to clients and included this new feature so they could get an idea of how many practices were still using the software. That could be a whole other thread, but I won't go there. UNVERIFIED: So how do you get a permanent key? Well according to one practice. They actually called the leasing co and had it confirmed that they did not require the key code. They then somehow contacted Garcia, and he told them that all they had to do was send an official letter. I do not know if they did get a permanent key, but as I said before, you can always try. Good Luck | Post Points: 5 Posts 3,419 Points 45,554 Reply Robert Gleeman replied on 11-01-2005 3:16 AM rated by 0 users quote:Originally posted by gchiu quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. It proves to me that no one is immune to, nor protected from, this type of predation. This is a crime with many victims, and harm has been done to the EMR industry as a whole, which includes patients. I hope we all learn as much as possible from this terrible thread, painful as it is to contemplate. Robert Gleeman, Medical Journalist for EMR Update.com Email: robert@emrupdate.com Tel: 1-650-968-6359 Skype and ooVoo user name: robertgleeman EMR progress is a matter of fact. EMR Update supports your right to know. | Post Points: 5 Posts 30 Points 1,110 Reply bbandell replied on 11-15-2005 2:05 AM rated by 0 users New from the pages of the South Florida Business Journal: http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/11/14/tidbits1.html?page=3 No quit in Dr. Notes Despite having faced 117 lawsuits, owing about $1.2 million in tax liens, and now suffering another garnishment, Dr. Angel M. Garcia and his businesses aren't ready to throw in the towel. Dr. Notes, his Boca Raton electronic medical records company, was reinstated as a corporation in Florida on Oct. 18, meaning it once again can do business here, after being delisted on Sept. 16 for not making an annual filing. The company's registered agent was changed from Corporation Services Co. in Tallahassee to Mardjan Garcia, the ex-wife of the CEO. The fee to reinstate a delisted corporation is $600, according to the Florida Division of Corporations. Also reinstated are the nonprofit Dr. Notes Research Foundation, with the CEO changed from Angel Garcia to current wife Maricarmen Beltran, and Angel M. Garcia, M.D., P.A., which is based in Dr. Notes' corporate offices. Remaining delisted on a state Web site Nov. 9 was Datamed Worldwide, which owes $1.03 million in federal tax liens for unpaid payroll taxes on the nearly 140 workers it employed for Dr. Notes. Of that tax debt, $677,300 has been accessed against Garcia personally. According to state and federal court records, Garcia and his companies owe $3.41 million in judgment liens and are facing 20 pending cases seeking a total of at least $997,000. One creditor is trying to levy his judgment lien on each of Garcia's homes in Delray Beach and Doral. On Nov. 1, De Lage Landen Financial Services emptied Dr. Notes' account at Regent Bank in Boca Raton with a $15,050 garnishment, according to court records. It was the first successful garnishment against the company since April. Miami attorney Robert Solove said his client, a Pennsylvania-based equipment leasing company, is still owed more than $100,000. "We're happy that we got something from this," he said. "It's better than a lot of people did." - Brian Bandell | Post Points: 5 Previous | Next Page 14 of 17 (246 items) « First ... < Previous 12 13 14 15 16 Next > ... Last » | RSS ©2008 emrupdate.com. 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quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. Graham http://www.synapsedirect.com/ Synapse - the EMR for the superior physician | Post Points: 5
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quote:Originally posted by gchiu quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. It proves to me that no one is immune to, nor protected from, this type of predation. This is a crime with many victims, and harm has been done to the EMR industry as a whole, which includes patients. I hope we all learn as much as possible from this terrible thread, painful as it is to contemplate. Robert Gleeman, Medical Journalist for EMR Update.com Email: robert@emrupdate.com Tel: 1-650-968-6359 Skype and ooVoo user name: robertgleeman EMR progress is a matter of fact. EMR Update supports your right to know. | Post Points: 5
quote:Originally posted by elsie Dr. Notes (at least in some instances) requires the medical practice to call the company monthly to acquire a valid "activation code." Without a current, valid code, no one has access to the data stored on the server in the practice's office. Naturally, if the support payment is not made on time, no activation code will be provided. It amazes me that people have signed such a contract. It proves to me that no one is immune to, nor protected from, this type of predation. This is a crime with many victims, and harm has been done to the EMR industry as a whole, which includes patients. I hope we all learn as much as possible from this terrible thread, painful as it is to contemplate. Robert Gleeman, Medical Journalist for EMR Update.com Email: robert@emrupdate.com Tel: 1-650-968-6359 Skype and ooVoo user name: robertgleeman EMR progress is a matter of fact. EMR Update supports your right to know. | Post Points: 5