Hi Roy,

No, Jon does not have a remote control or back door to turn off Amazing Charts (that I know of..), and my thinking is that the EULA police aren't going to bust down the door of someone's office just because someone has a falling out with Jon. If it ever went to court, as much as it's Jon's program, my thinking is that the provision that you have to remove the software would probably be found unenforcible, as access to the patients' medical records would probably be found to outweigh Jon's rights here.

Bear in mind a few things, though. First - why would it ever come to this? Jon's a sensible guy, and based on what I know of him, it would take some pretty severe provocation to ever get to the point where this would be an issue. Second - $500 / year is dirt cheap for what we're getting. Third - the cost of litigation to either get you to delete Amazing Charts or to get a court to tell Jon "no, you can't do that" would cost BOTH parties a fortune, which neither Amazing Charts or any medical practice I know of wants to throw money away on laywers, so quite honestly I see this whole saga as a "non-event"

Even so, since most of the chart in our office is still paper, the paper chart is the final word on the patient's medical record, at least for the time being. This may change once we're interfacing to the hospital's lab and radiology systems, as most of our working chart info that would need to be imported comes from the hospital, and I don't want to add the overhead of scanning all of this at the moment.

If you go into Amazing Charts, bring up a chart note, right click on an area to bring up templates, then export the template, it will create an XML file of the template. I usually shorten the file name a bit, as generally the name is the template name plus the practice name plus the date then ".XML" at the end.

When creating a template post, I would like to see the actual text posted for those that choose to cut and paste the text into a new template. The uploaded XML file is optional, but it looks like a few people so far are downloading them, which is kinda cool (and why the template discussion can accept uploads!)


Hope this helps,

V.

Vincent Meyer, MD
Meyer, Malin and Associates, PLLC