{"id":42,"date":"2007-01-07T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/2007\/01\/electronic-medical-records-and-blurry-eyes\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T20:00:39","slug":"electronic-medical-records-and-blurry-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/2007\/01\/electronic-medical-records-and-blurry-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Medical Records and Blurry Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only read this post if you are interested in Electronic Medical Records or Practice Management Software, otherwise click one this link to read about what we are doing in San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whew!!! It has been an exaustive and exausting 48 hours of research on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management Software (PMS) for our San Diego Chiropractic office. Make sure you know the two previous definitions PMS and EMR, as they are used continuously below.
\nHere are the two most important links I have found so far.<\/p>\n

The first one is\u00c2\u00a0 EMR Update<\/a>. This site is the only place where I found any significant data on making our office paperless.<\/p>\n

The main thing I have learned is that the opinion of a large number of doctors is that EMR and PMS software companies promote a flawless easy to use product, much more than they actually are.<\/p>\n

It appears that Medisoft has been bought and sold 2 or 3 times during the past few years.<\/p>\n

Medisoft is definately the most used software by small medical practices.<\/p>\n

One of their recent version releases, I believe 10, caused at least a few if not quite a few practices to not be able to use their software for a while until the bugs were fixed.<\/p>\n

This reminds me of why I made a decision years ago to never use, brand new technology for vital tasks, but instead to use technology that has been out for at least 6 months, if not 3 years so the kinks can get worked out.<\/p>\n

One very interesting company and player in this arena is Mark Anderson of the A.C. Group<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The below is from memory, so I apologize if it is not 100%. He has a company that I believe every 6 months sends a 5000 question survey to every EMR company. The questions are about usability, viability of the company, number of users, and just about everything they or their customers could think of to ask. If the EMR company self rates themselves by their answers above a score of 85% then Mark’s team evaluates the actual software. They also claim that they get a lot of first hand data from employees and other people in the industry about the companies, and obviously feedback from the users themselves. They charge from $1,000 up to $150,000 or so for their services. In Mark’s interview linked to above he talks about one software vendor that he is having a little dispute with. The vendor claims that Mark is financially influenced by the Vendors in his recomendations, but Mark claims no such influence. If nothing else, the conflict actually draws attention to the two of them and serves a good marketing purpose as well! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Without naming names, I have consistent problems with downloading demos of many of these softwares. So far in fact only one demo out of the many I tried has worked.<\/p>\n

I also found an old friend in my data base Shawn at Ability Software<\/a>. and sent him an alert as to what I am trying to figure out. He sells Medisoft software for a living, and also helps people with their Meidisoft problems. He helped us out on a sticky point a few years ago, and I kept track of him. The research process is going well, and I predict I should have a good answer within a few days, or next weekend. I am sure I will have more to report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only read this post if you are interested in Electronic Medical Records or Practice Management Software, otherwise click one this link to read about what we are doing in San Diego. Whew!!! It has been an exaustive and exausting 48 hours of research on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management Software (PMS) for our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyabcs.com\/bwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}