RE: phone lines, cells, voip, etc....

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i got alot of stuff from a doc tthat was leaving so dont forget the used

market or second hand market especially if you are just starting out and

pinching pennies

> GAD! I completely forgot to mention it! Tim has me too busy thinking

> about phones! I just got my EKG from Pulse Biometrics. It is a fully

> interpretative PC EKG for about $1700. the non-interpretive version

> runs $1500. I got it from a company called stork medical:

> http://storkmedical.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD & Store_Code=SM & Pro

> duct_Code=68Q0 & Category_Code=PCECG

> This unit is called the QRS Card by Pulse Biometrics, not to be confused

> with another company called QRS diagnostics that makes a similar 3K

> version. After a long talk with the guy at Stork, he explained that the

> QRS card is priced so much cheaper, because they are trying to market

> their new Bluetooth version at a price comparable with Welch Allyn and

> Burdick. Here is the pulse biometric website:

> http://www.qrscard.com/html/index.htm I actually had a very hard time

> finding it on the web. I thought Stork was selling an older version of

> the QRS diagnostics PC EKG. I got it set up a couple of days ago and

> have already done about 5 EKG's! So far it works great! It connects

> via USB, so it can easily swap between a laptop and a desktop. You can

> actually download the software from the Pulse biometric site and check

> it out in Demo mode. I have not yet figured out all of the features,

> but it seems to have more than I know what to deal with! If anyone is

> interested in the Rochester Area, I will be up next Thursday afternoon

> and would be happy to bring it up on my laptop for a demo. By the way,

> I couldn't get any of the local rep guys to get me any info on this at

> all. Seems like all they know is Burdick and Welch Allyn. Hope this

> helps.

>

> Re: phone lines, cells, voip, etc....

>

> Tim,

> I think the local business phone line ( frontier) charges per call. I

>

> don't have free outgoing calls.

>

> How much can you get the Welch Allyn EKG for? I am looking to possibly

> buy a pc based EKG. says he bought one intrepretive for 1500 (

> it is a brand that is not a main brand).. He says he was going to

> show me it one of these days. ... What was the name of the EKG

> you bought and can you come by next week to show me how it works and if

> you like it?

>

> Thanks

>

> lee

> Re: phone lines, cells, voip, etc....

>

>

>> Yeah, that's on my list as an option. I have to clarify if the local

>> business telephone account charges per call or not. If it does, it

>> would save money to use the toll-free onebox number. But if it

>> doesn't, your idea is the way to go with calls being sent to onebox on

>> a prn basis, and the patients wouldn't have a " weird number " to call

>> their local doc. Tim

>>

>>> Tim,

>>> Rather than force patients to call another number, you could just

>>> enable call forwarding on your landline number and it would

>>> automatically go to whatever phone number you want it to go to.

>>>

>>> Seto

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>>>

>>>> Hey , you are a genius! (I'm using it here figuritively even

>>>> though I

>>>> suspect you truely are based on knowing you ;-)

>>>>

>>>> It just dawned on me that the benefit of having a landline come

>>>> into the

>>>> office is that outgoing calls are free locally after the base price

>>>> of about $12/month for business line. That would allow me to cut my

>>>> monthly

>>>> minutes for the Treo's Verizon account and basically save the money

>>>> to pay

>>>> for the land line and internet access thru Frontier. I could still

>>>> integrate in the OneBox and use that as my calling-in number --

>>>> benefit is

>>>> having the single location (my email through OneBox) for email/vm/

>>>> faxes.

>>>>

>>>> With this configuration, my " working office " would be my EMR (AC),

>>>> Appointmentquest, OneBox.com and RelayHealth. Then, for outgoing

>>>> return

>>>> calls, I'd pick up the $12/month landline to lessen my cell phone

>>>> minutes.

>>>> Of course, some people may get that number from caller ID and call

>>>> back to

>>>> it... so I'd need VM that tells them to call a different number to

>>>> leave a

>>>> message (thru OneBox). Monthly cost for the whole " working office "

>>>> would

>>>> be about $270 (excluding AC but that's only $500/year to get

>>>> upgrades, etc

>>>> after year one). Not bad I think.

>>>>

>>>> There certainly is more than one way to skin a cat. But as I go

>>>> along, it

>>>> seems I'm still shaping my office in the Gwen Hanson/

>>>> Clemenson mode

>>>> (been trying to get away from their setup, but it keeps " pulling " me

>>>> back!).

>>>>

>>>> It's redundant but worth repeating -- THANKS to everyone for the

>>>> ideas and

>>>> for participating in this whole discussion group. I'm five and a

>>>> half weeks out from opening and because of you I feel like I'm right

>>>> on track

>>>> and ready to make it work from the get-go. Without all of you and

>>>> the opportunity to learn from your efforts I think I'd be lost.

>>>>

>>>> I'm incredibly fortunate in many ways, including being part of this

>>>> group.

>>>> Tim

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> > Tim,

>>>> > My main advice is not to jump into any long term contracts with

>>>> any

>>>> service until you know what works practically for your setup. I

>>>> started

>>>> > out thinking I was going to use onebox for all of my inbound and

>>>> outbound faxing. I soon found out that there are quite a few clicks

>>>> involved in sending a fax with onebox and got kind of frustrated. I

>>>> then found out that the most economical way for me to get internet

>>>> access in my office was with Frontier DSL and I needed a phone line

>>>> anyway.

>>>> > Now I use this combo:

>>>> > -VOIP phone for main office phone number (via DSL internet access)

>>>> -Frontier land line for DSL and outgoing faxes (syncs much more

>>>> conveniently directly from my computer's fax modem)

>>>> > -Onebox number for all incoming faxes only (sending faxes to my

>>>> email

>>>> > account). I actually don't use any of the other onebox features,

>>>> and

>>>> > it costs about the same as other internet faxing services

>>>> > I would have things set up different if I had a cable modem

>>>> service.

>>>> There are a lot of ways to skin a cat! Hope this helps.

>>>> >

>>>> >

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