Computer software applications and computer hardware with a full suite of applications used to automate a medical practice namely, applications for registration, scheduling, office messaging, billing and electronic data interchange, collections management, coding management and review, laboratory orders and results, prescription writing and refill requests, conflict checking and transmission, patient encounter notes-generation, office messaging, document scanning and indexing, practice workflow, online patient communications, medical information for physicians, eligibility verification, automated coding authorizations, referrals, patient-oriented medical information, financial reporting and administrative, financial and clinical applications related thereto, but specifically excluding computer software and hardware for medical image management and communication or display of such images and image related information over local area networks, intranets, wide area networks, the Internet and other wired and wireless technologies