A new approach to medical office billing

After surveying the existing medical office software, the specifications for an "ideal" medical office system were set forth. These include microcomputer configuration, multi-user multi-tasking operating systems with ability to run multiple printers, Winchester disk-drive storage, color terminals, data base management system with the ability to perform sophisticated patient selection and to sort this information at the user's discretion, the ability to merge form letters to a given selected list of patients and to automatically insert the patient's name and address in this form letter, powerful report-generating and modifying capability, all of which can easily be performed at the user level without the need for specialized data processing in-office personnel. A vertical, problem-oriented structure is described. This configuration lends itself to complex, modern billing situations.