OK, for those of you who know me, biting my tongue is not my strong suit. OK, no comments.
So, I am having a meeting with the chief of pediatrics who is going over my re-credentialing. Part of this was his coming out to look at my office and our EMR. So, he goes through ten visits and records the pluses and minuses.
Well, ultimately, I passed, but when he went through my EMR, he compared it with Logician. My guess is he couldn't name two other EMR companies like NextGen or eMDs. He is a neonatologist, and they don't use the traditional EMRs.
So, he is telling me Logician can do this and Logician can do that and AC can't do this and that. And, wouldn't it be great if it could do what Logician could do. (Bangor is a Logician town -- The FQHC uses it, all of the hospital FP centers and their owned practices use it. Probably over 300 or more Logician EMRs.
One quote about AC in his review: "It's a lower-budget EMR than Logician, and there is not a lot of capabilities for enhancements."
I guess he has no idea that it takes 20 minutes to do an office note in Logician. And, that those patients who transfer to me after 6 months at the other office bring 300 pages of notes for a healthy child. And, he may not wonder why the hospital-owed practices run in the red as their multiple providers see 10 to 15 patients per day. Sure the FQHC may run in the black, but that is because they are subsidized quite handsomely by the federal government AND our FQHC just received $10,000,000 from the federal government stimulus package to purchase EMR infrastructure that they already have. In the interest of full disclosure, I should submit the amount of money I received from the stimulus package: Ummm, oh yes, nothing. Nada.
But, for some reason, with AC, I somehow document what I need to, see 30 to 40 patients per day and run in the black. Bigger is not always better, and you couldn't pay me to use Logician.
