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Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

gwalker — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:54:19 GMT

Hi Hal, we are running a great Medinotes conversion promotion now:

You get a FREE Medisoft Clinical License and FREE Medinotes conversion to Medisoft Clinical if you purchase before 12/27/2010.

- Proof of Medinotes purchase required.

- You will get a FREE Medisoft Clinical License for each of your first two Medinotes provider licenses.

- The FREE Medisoft Clinical does not include software assurance, addons such as eprescribing or clinical tools. Also, training and implementation costs extra.

- You must first purchase the upgrade to Medisoft v16, but we are running a special where you can get that at 35% off if you purchase before 9/17/2010.

- The FREE conversion includes demographics, encounter notes, past medical history, medication history, lab results, allergies, and insurance carriers. Other data elements and images can be converted for a fee.

- We are also throwing in a FREE ePrescibing for one year if you purchase before 8/15/2010.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Hal3 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:28 GMT

MediSoft V14 and MediNotes still working for me.

How long will this keep going?

I'm afraid to upgrade anything for fear the whole house of cards will tumble.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Hal3 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:56:10 GMT

Any updated opinions on this?

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Brendon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:34 GMT

Thank you Gwalker for the clarification, we are still without problem for ODBC or OLEDB at this time either.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

gwalker — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:46:52 GMT

alborg:

I also liked it when it was able to communicate with ODBC rather than HL7, which is much more complicated and costly.

ODBC still works with Medisoft. You can also use the newer OLEDB interface.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

alborg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:26:47 GMT

The thing that I don't like about Medisoft is the fast upgrade cycle. I also liked it when it was able to communicate with ODBC rather than HL7, which is much more complicated and costly.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Brendon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:46:46 GMT

Medisoft is one of if not the most deployed PMS solutions in the country. It is well known that the Legacy PMS solutions where primarily Medical Mangler (Now Sage), MISYS (Now Purchased Allscripts and Renamed MISYS to it in a complex arrangement), Millbrook (Now GE) PCN (Bought by Medical Mangler) and at the low end Medisoft and a few Lytecs. Then there were many others that were mostly local and small customer base (Under 1000 practices), like down here in Florida a company called Edgemed, which is typical of many of the parts of the country I went to. For example a Edgemed equivelant was formed from San Antonio, Texas crowd. I found one in Illinois and another in North Carolina. These small independents were everywhere just like now in the EMR industry.

Given that the majority of the Doctors that bought Medisoft did so because it was easy to work with (originally ASCII Files) and more importantly very low cost, two things will happen. One as they keep raising the price there Medisoft with Medinotes combination (most popular) becomes a 10K solution for the small offices they address.

They are not going anywhere given there user base.

However, one asks is it worth 7.5K to 10K for a Office PMS and EMR that is not integrated, especially if one is forced to use Medinotes as the EMR. There are so many good EMR/PMS integrations on the market at the 10K range, so it kind of puts the low cost Medisoft/Medinotes solution to the test.

That being said, from my Medisoft VARs that sell this combo I would say Medinotes with Medisoft falls in line with industry figures, about 40% are happy with the solution and choice, 30% around luke warm could live with it or without it, and 30% absolutely hate it and often the VAR loses them as a customer.

That is why of the three Medisoft Vars I know in the Dade, Broward and Palm Beach county areas all say they shy away from selling the EMR often with there Solo Docs that use Medisoft, because they have had bad experiences.

That is not to say Medinotes or Medisoft are bad products. This is not true, they are good products. It is just that trying to get buy in and total satisfaction from a small office is very difficult to accomplish.

For example, yesterday I was in a demo with a Solo Cardiologist and they saw the entire eMedRec solution. They loved the Document Management, was awed by the integrated Dragon and really liked our voice command of the interface.

At the end of the grueling process the physician said, I really wanted to see the Data Flows Tracking Items in a Graph on the screen like the other vendor did. This type of person is going to be difficult to ever please. He is going to have more time on his hands and is going to pick your application appart spending hours on the phone for support. When you give him the support he will be happy, if you don't he will go to the luke warm category and eventually the dissatisfied category.

I find in larger groups this is less the case because EMR simply solves so many core Chart Access and Availability problems for Medical Records that larger practices with 20-100's of employees and management/physician personnel that they are happy when a install is well managed and support is timely. You can spend a month installing a group like this and get a lot of functionality. You can spend a week or two on one of these small practices and get nit picked to death.

Therefore, I submit, the real issue is the market Medisoft is in is great for PMS, not so much EMR. EMR for small office is a difficult sale and environment. I believe that is why many of the VARs I know offer there customers Medinotes, and eMedRec for that matter as a alternative, but not really in the push it mode.

There are a few large Medisoft Vars, a couple that post on this forum, that really are EMR evangelists. But for the most part the Medisoft VARs I know just don't want to risk there customer base moving them to EMR. They want the 4-7K they can walk out the door with selling Medinotes, or eMedRec, but they don't want to loose the customer over it. Consider that every time there is a version upgrade they make 1000's on the upgrade. One of my VARs that is also a Medisoft dealer has 350 clients. In one upgrade he made 200,000 in labor and sales profit.

They are not risking that over EMR. And the crowd that uses Medisoft for the most part ain't overly interested to the point of buying in.

Medisoft ain't going anywhere for at least another 5 years. Quote me on it.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Ducknet — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:25:36 GMT

Ran across this...looks like it is still around...version 14

http://www.pr.com/press-release/75286

http://www.medicalbillingsoftware.com announces the United States release of the Easy To Use Medisoft Medical Billing Software Version 14. The new version can help to increase efficiency and productivity in any small physician office because it simplifies the management of patient paperwork and the entry of billing data. Medisoft Version 14 is filled with many features and options that ensure your valuable time can be spent on the patient rather than on paperwork.

Medisoft medical billing software version 14, has been designed specifically to help healthcare offices increase cash flow and save valuable time. To view other new program features in this new version or to download a demo copy of Medisoft Version 14, visit
http://www.medicalbillingsoftware.com/medisoft-software.htm

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Brendon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:26:24 GMT

Medisoft is a good product and it will continue to be. Obviously wiht McKesson it will take some time to change hands.

Look at Medical Manager/Sage, it has so many owners over the year also, but at its core it is still a great PMS.

Re: Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

gwalker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:53:57 GMT

The product is still being developed, but it is the same team that develops both Medisoft and Lytec. They are currently in the process of relocating the entire Medisoft office from Gilbert, AZ to Alpharetta, GA. I am sure that is a major distraction for everyone involved yet it looks like they are going to get version 14 out the door.

I was in a conference call with the new person McKesson hired to redo the Medisoft website. I think she is going to move the website in a good direction - highlighting features rather than just the same old HIPAA scare tactics that everyone is tired of. I look forward to seeing the new website when that is unveiled.

Is there anything McKesson doesn't sell? When I was a former employee of McKesson, they sold bottled water...

Has MediSoft been put out to pasture?

Hal3 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:53:20 GMT

I checked the webpage today and it was very primitive. There were PDF downloads for product descriptions. NDCHealth was no longer mentioned.

It seems that NDCHealth was sold to PerSe Technologies which was then sold to KcKesson.

The McKesson web pages do not mention MediSoft.

McKesson sells “McKesson Practice Complete”.

I am not planning to upgrade to MediSoft 14 at this point.

Does anyone have any inside info?