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                                                                  EXHIBIT 10.25

                                FIRST AMENDMENT
                            TO MEDAPHIS CORPORATION
                    NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN


         THIS AMENDMENT is effective as of December 1, 1998, and is made by
MEDAPHIS CORPORATION, a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the "Company").

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

         WHEREAS, the Company has previously adopted the Medaphis Corporation
Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"); and

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has duly authorized an
amendment of the Plan to broaden the transferability of options granted under
the Plan.

         NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Section 5(h) of the Plan is
hereby amended by deleting Section 5(h) of the Plan in its entirety, and
replacing it with the following:

         "(h) Transferability. An Option granted to an optionee under the Plan
         shall not be assignable or transferable by the optionee other than (i)
         to the spouse, children or grandchildren of the optionee ("Immediate
         Family Members"), (ii) to a trust or trusts for the exclusive benefit
         of such Immediate Family Members, (iii) to a partnership in which such
         Immediate Family Members are the only partners, (iv) to an entity
         exempt from federal income tax pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the
         Code or any successor provision, or (v) to a split interest trust or
         pooled income fund described in Section 2522(c)(2) of the Code or any
         successor provision; provided, however, that (x) there shall be no
         consideration for any such transfer, and (y) other transfers by the
         optionee, or any subsequent transfer of transferred Options by a
         transferee, shall be prohibited, except those by will or the laws of
         descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations
         order as defined in the Code or Title I of the Employee Retirement
         Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; and provided, further, that
         following transfer, for purpose of elections to exercise the Option
         and the sale or merger and change in control provisions of the the
         Plan, the term "Non-Employee Director" shall be deemed to include the
         transferee, but the Option otherwise shall continue to be subject to
         the same terms and conditions that were applicable immediately prior
         to transfer, including without limitation the provisions of Section
         g(1) of the Plan, which shall apply so that in the event the original
         grantee of the Option ceases for any reason to be a director of the
         Company, then the Option shall be exercisable by the transferee only
         to the extent and for the periods specified in the Agreement. The
         Company shall have no obligation to register with any federal or state
         securities commission or agency any Common Stock issuable or issued
         under an Option that has been transferred by a Non-Employee Director
         under this Section 5(h)."

         Except as specifically amended by this First Amendment, the Plan shall
remain in full force and effect as prior to this First Amendment.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this First Amendment to be
executed on the day and year first above written.


                                    MEDAPHIS CORPORATION



                                    By: /s/ ALLEN W. RITCHIE               
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                                        Allen W. Ritchie
                                        President and Chief Executive Officer


ATTEST:



By:  /s/ RANDOLPH L. M. HUTTO   
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     Randolph L. M. Hutto
     Secretary


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