Definitely the Medical Billing application. A local agency came to us because they were having trouble getting their existing billing application to work. It turns out they were using a custom in-house solution that had some design flaws to begin with and had been further compromised by a previous employee who removed all the relational constraints so he could enter data into the tables directly.
I was tasked to do an analysis and I concluded that the existing app was beyond reparation. I wrote up an analysis of what they would require for a new application and told them they should allow 6 months and $100,000 to get it done. The people who did the billing were quite pleased but the director vetoed the idea saying that there must be a "$20,000 solution out there somewhere" I honestly could not say if there was or not but I went on my way having done my analysis. A few months later they got in touch with us and wondered if I could not make the prototype I had developed into a functioning billing program since their existing one had finally collapsed and stopped functioning. I worked hard to do it and managed to get them billing one week before they were about to run out of funds. They then went to a company that housed their data offsite and after 9 months had already spent around $200,000 with no end of the bleeding in sight. I cannot remember if they ended up cancelling that project or if the company they used went bankcrupt.... 
Posted @ 07:43AM, April 04, 2007
by Brad Neufeld | Permalink
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