Anyone ever use Cúram Software from a Mac?

[reezekeys]

My wife is an Occupational Therapist providing Early Intervention services and she is required to start using an online-based system set up by our state's Department of Health for billing and treatment progress notes and reports. Up to now she has had to hand-write and send or fax these forms, but now it's all going to done via the web. She logs into a "portal" to a system that uses software by this particular company, and they say that they require a Windows based computer and Internet Explorer!! They also say that Macs are "not supported." Since my wife is not particularly computer-savvy, I have the job of making sense of all this and at first glance I think it's gonna be a nightmare.

I've spent a few minutes logged in, and from what I can tell, Macs are "not supported" only because the staff at this software company doesn't want the bother of fielding tech support calls dealing with more than one OS. Everything I've seen looks like standard web pages with javascript – nothing that any Mac with a normal web browser can't do. Before I start looking for used Windows laptops or a cheap Intel Mac (her laptop is the last G4 PPC PowerBook), I thought I would ask here to see if anyone has knowledge of these kinds of web-based software systems and whether a Mac truly can or can't do the job. Apparently Cúram Software is a big vendor of this kind of software for many government agencies, so I'm hoping that someone around these parts might have had to deal with them and would know the scoop. TIA for any help!

[kj]

I hate to be negative, but several of the systems set up by our state gov't (particularly medicaid) not only required explorer, but required an antiquated version of explorer. I've also gone back to school, and despite education being a fairly mac-ful place, much of the web-based stuff does not work with macs. The worst of it is that it appears functional when lightly clicking through it, but it's not--at all. The latest is a "gradebook" app that my wife uses at the local university. If she inputs the numbers with a mac, the data is completely corrupted when opened at a later date. So at any rate, I'd be extremely sure everything is functional before committing to using a mac. In fact, I wouldn't even try it, myself. Just get a 300.00 windows laptop for that stuff (I bought a lenovo z580 recently for 350, and it's great). kj.

[Jimmypoo]

Why not use VMWare with XP or whatever works?

[Spock]

You could try Crossover for free and see if it it works for your wife before buying.

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility...pp_id=7272

[bazookaman]

I make it a point to never use software with an accent mark. :booty:

[Mac1337]

I will try to help you here , you can send me your details to raghukumard@gmail.com

[btfc]

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-cha...nt-string/

http://developer.apple.com/library/safar...Tools.html

[reezekeys]

Thanks everyone for the replies. As to the suggestions to use Crossover or VMWare: as I said in my first post, my wife has a PPC Mac laptop. AFAIK there's no way to run Windows on a PPC Mac unless I use Virtual PC and I'm not going to do that, even if I could find a copy that still exists! Years ago I used VPC on an old G3 desktop and it was slower than a slug on heroin.

kj's reply gives me pause and makes me think that spending $300-$400 on a Windows laptop would save me at least that much money's worth in time & trouble if I tried to use her existing Mac. I will say this: the online "portal" into this new world of "Social Enterprise Management" software looks like someone time-travelled back to the early 1990s. Is this how this stuff has to look like?

[Speedy]

reezekeys wrote: I will say this: the online "portal" into this new world of "Social Enterprise Management" software looks like someone time-travelled back to the early 1990s. Is this how this stuff has to look like?

Seems so. Look at vs7 of Folding@home. for the Mac. Windows 3.1 in the buff.