elementalClinic installer rebuilt
Submitted by dieter on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 16:41
Until today, elementalClinic (emC) could be installed in one of two ways:
- from a Debian package, generated by a script hidden somewhere in svn
- by hand, after reading the INSTALL instructions, with
cp
This is as inconvenient as it sounds.
Now, though, emC uses a boring, standard Perl distribution installer written with Module::Build. This is a huge win for several reasons:
- less custom installer code to maintain, and what's left is Perl instead of make/shell
- improved handling of Perl module dependencies -- I had hand-rolled something to work with the old Makefile, but the standard Perl tools are better
- a wider selection of tools in general -- anything anyone's ever written to analyze, transform, or package a Perl distribution now works with emC
It was a real joy to go through the install instructions and delete huge swaths of text instructing people to find those dependencies by hand, not to mention the fact that the dependency lists were often somewhat stale (as such documentation tends to be).
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elementalClinic Scam
It took several non-responses by email, one phone call, and an accidental discovery to find out that this software would cost my small practice more than $10,000 per year. You see we have 4 clinicians and one receptionist/billing agent. So, based on what I stumbled upon on your website, at $175 per month per user that would amount to $10,500 per year. I don't really care for the cumbersome features of Medisoft, but at least I buy it, I host it, I own it and get all the support I need. I must have been nuts to think that "open source" meant free or reasonable. Hope nobody asks me about this scam.
Jack Booth
ElementalClinic can be hosted locally
Dear Jack Booth,
I'm a person looking in to EC. You can host the application on your own server hardware. There is no need to have EC involved if you've your own unix IT staff.
On the flip side, the point of paying a fee like 10.5k a year, 1) you don't host it or need to buy server hardware 2) Everything is backed up on their end 3) you don't need to hire an IT person if none are present
10.5k a year costs much less than hiring an knowledgeable IT person plus the cost of running your own hardware per year. This is the thought process involved in most software as a service pricing.
You may also want to google "Software as a Service" to better understand what I'm talking about.
They do have the option of you sending your own hardware and they can install ElementalClinic on the server before sending back to you. I'm sure they could also remote in if given access to install EC, for a fee of course.
Sincerely,
Insane Kangaroo
Homer, Alaska
Is this project still under active development?
I was wondering if this project is still under active development? I'm working on a project that will require an emr and have the source code downloaded for this app. But I'm not ready to hitch my wagon to this just yet. I was wonder have active the development of this application is?
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