Guys,
Actually I agree with both of you. We should be able to use work arounds that help us, but here in NY they are quite strick too. They seem to love to have one or two people to "make examples of". Makes you feel like you're back in grade school or something. Some silly doc here really messed up bad recently, he pretty much deserved to get caught. He was writing Rx's for patients that may or may not have needed the stuff and had them sharing part of their pills back with him and his wife who were actually using the stuff. Seems he was busted at the same thing back about 8-9 years ago, but was only "sactioned" then. Unreal. You better believe he was the lead story around here for a few nights. Busting Doctors is cool, didn't you know that? But here controlled substances must be on NYS official hardcopy, not called or faxed in.
But again, the real point is that this is a "wish" and a commumication back to the mothership that we need our program to function in a "paper office" fashion to allow us to work in the way that works best for us; Not us conforming to the program. Isn't that the knock against "other" non-doctor designed EMR's? We should all want the program to record the chain of custody so it does protect us, that we took a message, sent it to the doc, she responded to it and then one of her staff finished the job for her, right?
Bert, you forgot the most important choice in your poll..."would you like AC to build or design something similar to what was discussed in this thread?" As you said yourself the idea of the wish list and your starting the polling thing was to convey back to AC what we out here in the working world were doing, seeing and needing since we seem to NOT have as easy and open a conduit back to AC as we once did, right? The culture back in RI is changing and we users out here who at least used to beta still feel a need to try and communicate our needs and "wishes" back to the homebase some how.
