Practice

The primary objective of MedSuite is to satisfy the practice management requirements of complex physician organizations.  We reasoned that if MedSuite can satisfy the practice management requirements of a complex physician organization, then a simpler organization such as a solo physician in practice or a small group of physicians in practice should be easily satisfied as well.  Let's examine a fairly complicated physician organization:

Assume that there is a group of physicians who call themselves Anesthesia Associates of America.  These physicians may provide services in multiple hospitals and/or surgical centers.  They may provide services for patients in need of anesthesia services, chronic pain management services, and critical care services.  They may be legally organized together in one or more partnerships, professional associations, or professional corporations.  From a legal and tax position, they may function as separate individuals.  They may call themselves "Anesthesia Associates of America" in order to appear to the outside world as a single entity.  They may be multiple legal entities that are divided on physician lines, facility lines, or type of service lines.  The number of ways to divide such an organization is at least equal to the number of physicians in the organization.

We are not really concerned with all of that.  We are only concerned with two fundamental questions:

In MedSuite's nomenclature, the term "practice" performs two functions.  First, it allows us to define the organization called Anesthesia Associates of America as a reporting "roll-up".  Second, and perhaps more importantly, is allows us to greatly reduce the replication of data and ease the maintenance chores within this organization.