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Reason Number |
MyEMR® Suite by
Software Motif |
"Chiro Suite"
(ChiroPad, ChiroOffice and Cairo for the
Pocket PC) by
Life Systems |
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10. Best pricing - initial software
purchase |
Software Motif's integration package
with is $2654 for a single-user or up to 10-user
network license of EMR Datacenter, MyEMR® for Windows, and MyEMR®
for the Pocket PC PI Edition. |
Life Systems' "Chiro Suite" price as of
December 2005 is $6995 for the ChiroOffice, ChiroPad and Cairo for the
Pocket PC software. |
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9. Best service - software support
& upgrades |
$900 - annual support (with
upgrades) for EMR Datacenter, which
includes MyEMR for Windows and
MyEMR for the Pocket PC support.
For
users without EMR Datacenter, MyEMR
annual support and upgrades is $325. |
$1690 - annual ChiroOffice and
ChiroPad support for the
"Chiro Suite", as of December 2005. |
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8. Best technologies - Software Motif
uses current software technologies |
YES. Software Motif keeps
current with programming technologies.
Our Microsoft JET 4.0 database engine is
100% compatible with the Microsoft
Office/Access 2003 release and all of
Microsoft's upgrades.
We can convert &
upgrade 100% of your Life Systems
cs_pub.mdb data.
We upgrade more Life Systems users than
any other software company, while
providing the most comprehensive data
conversion, data switch or data upgrade available at any price.
("Chiro Suite" to MyEMR® Suite data
conversion is $250.00).
The MyEMR® Suite database can be
easily opened in Microsoft Access 2003
for database maintenance, browsing, or
any desired data export.
As part of our software upgrade
strategies, our software upgrades
leverage support for the Microsoft .NET
2.0 Framework for both 32 bit Intel/AMD
and 64 bit Intel Itanium and AMD64
support to also remain compatible with
new cross-platform computer hardware. |
NO. Life Systems continues
to use the 10 year old Microsoft Access
95/97 database format with the 1 gigabyte
database size limitation of Microsoft
Access 95/97. With the Access 95/97
database, you (or any of your local
support people) cannot open your
database with Microsoft Access 2003* for
database maintenance, browsing or data
export purposes.
The Cairo Fall 2002 Pocket PC
software is
James Carlburg's final release to
Life Systems, which is over 3 years
old without upgrades to the Cairo, as it
displays the Fall 2002 window when Cairo
launches.
* When attempting to open a Life
Systems database with Microsoft Access
2003, it indicates an Access 95/97
database that must be upgraded. |
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7. Implements Crystal Reports by
Business Objects for statistics data
drilling |
YES. |
NO. |
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6. Pocket PC support for Mobile
2005 / Windows Mobile 5.0 |
YES. MyEMR® for the Pocket
PC is fully compatible with Windows
Mobile 2005 Pocket PC's with a 320x240
or 640x480 display |
NO.
Cairo
Fall 2002 for the Pocket PC is designed
for Pocket PC 2000 devices and is
compatible with Pocket PC 2002 devices. |
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5. Software licensing with
computer hardware locking |
NO. Software Motif does not
implement computer hardware "locking" of
software licenses which would require
any "codes" to get into your software.
Our software license agreement is a
simple Yes/No agreement during the
software installation. |
YES.
You are
dependent upon Life Systems for unlock
codes. Life Systems has
implemented computer
hardware "locking" of software which
requires "codes" from Life Systems to
control what computers the software will
run on, and change even if hardware in a
computer changes. |
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4. Free home computer user
licenses |
YES. We understand users
like to take home copies of their data,
or use their laptops outside of the
office. |
NO. Life Systems charges an
additional fee for home licenses, which
is enforced by their "locking" system. |
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3. Online help system |
YES. Our online help system
is available 24x7, and is always kept
current with the most recent software
releases. Our online help system
includes published help articles
providing step-by-step instruction, as
well as our robust Frequently Asked
Question forum. All of our online
help system is publicly accessible.
Help Articles:
http://help.softwaremotif.com/
Online manuals:
http://manual.softwaremotif.com/
Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.softwaremotif.com/faq/ |
NO. |
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2. Real-time publishing of release
notes |
YES. Our publicly published
release note web log lets you know
instantly about software changes that
benefit and affect you and the full
history of software changes for all of
our products. See
http://release.softwaremotif.com/
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NO. Not supported. |
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1. Most experienced software
development and upgrades. |
YES. Our software continues
to be developed and maintained by James Carlburg, the
software
developer of Cairo for the Pocket PC
(through its Fall 2002 release) and as a
software co-author of the original
ChiroPad (since 1992) through January
2003, and co-author of
ChiroOffice (through January 2003).
See copyright information as a
PDF file or from
http://www.copyright.gov.
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