| Sumario: | The writer provides some advice for practitioners or organizations considering the purchase of a practice management software system. The first step in choosing the most suitable system should be to define the functionality required of the software. Once functionality has been defined, scenarios or actual events that either occur regularly or have proven to be problematic should be constructed to ensure that the practitioner views the system managing real-world transactions. Furthermore, care should be taken in surveying and choosing a group of systems to be evaluated. A number of well-known and generally popular software systems is listed, and a check-off chart of items that customers may look for in various systems is provided.
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