wine users - Aug 2011 - Re: Kareo please help

I'm well aware that I'm on here a few months late, but I was hoping to
find some step-by-step answers. I'm not utilizing Kareo at the moment, but
it's one of the medical billing softwares that my boss is looking into. That
said, he's also not adamant about keeping Windows on our system. . . .but he
doesn't want Mac either. Pretty large conundrum, right?

Anyway, my boss is looking for a simpler OS -- one much like Ubuntu. 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!!!

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