On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 09:55 -0500, TechCatherine wrote: > The biggest hurdle to get through is that he's put me in charge of > switching all this over and I don't know the first thing about > changing OS's and making medical billing software compatible. Think > anyone can help me out? It would be super appreciated. We want the > switch to be as quick and painless as possible. While we're not a > paperless office (yet), we have a lot of saved info. Thanks!!! > If you're not fully up to speed with Linux, you could do a lot worse than hiring a few days consultation from somebody local who is. If most of your non-billing information is in a common format, e.g. MS Office and doesn't use fancy tricks, such as VBA macros, it should be immediately accessible from Open Office/Libre Office - at least that's my experience. Same goes for web pages, especially if they're written in HTML and PHP. Your billing software may be easy if there's a native Linux port, it works under Wine, or if its sitting on a database using a schema that's easily ported to one of the native Linux databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle - the first may be easiest). It looks to me that the billing system authors may be your first port of call there. Martin
