Becoming Your Own IT  

Category: Practice Management

About two or three times a year I run across someone who is starting up a new business, such as medical billing or a new practice, and that person has made the Big Decision to do their own IT.  I usually see these people on the support forums I frequent asking questions to get help.  What these people fail to realize is that once the experts on these forums see them for what they are - someone who has no business trying to do some of the advanced stuff they are doing and are clearly just trying to get free labor out of the forum experts - the forum experts begin to ignore them until they go away.  Of course, by the time all this happens our hopeful new business owner has wasted tons of time and has spent far more money than they would have if they had just hired an IT person outright.

This decision to become their own IT is usually made for one or more of the following reasons:<...