We're a small home-health agency just moving into maternal/infant nursing.
We have six pumps - mostly for convenience sake, use a proprietary
accounting system (Lewis) which is part of our whole operation, but manually
track rentals, maintenance, etc. We initially tried tracking it along with
our other inventory. For us, trying to use software turned out to be more
hassle than it's worth. Quicken is a good program, we use it for our
check-book, but the QuickBooks, which someone recommended wasn't
sophisticated enough for our needs. Might be just the ticket for you, however.
With only a little expertise you could write an inventory program for your
spreadsheet or data base. As a matter of fact mine, Alpha, has a ready-made
template. Set up time, input time, etc., for us, however, won't cost out
until we get at least 20 or 25 pumps (which we may get someday if our
marketing strategy works out.) Long and short of it, instead of software, we
use P&P firmware. (Joke :) That's pencil and paper)
Realize this doesn't really answer your question, but thought I'd kick in my
experience. Hope it helps in the decision making process.
Richard G."Dick" Copeland
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