Thanks all for your workarounds. Good to see I'm not the only one frustrated with the little things. Don't get me wrong, I praise AC at every turn and I'm the most "technologically up to date" physician at my small hospital due to AC.
But AC with the CCHIT stuff has missed some of the forest for the trees (or maybe missed the little trees because of the forest). These are "small potatoes" issues that consume these support boards.
I agree Jon. I complete my note and send a quick letter to the referring provider just with the Assessment/Plan as well as a canned intro on the same day as the patient is seen through my fax/printer. I truly believe that promptness has increased my referrals from many docs.
Maybe 6.0 will have a better scheduler and letter writer. I've actually adapted my practice to the letter writer and scheduler so much now that if it was changed too much, I'd probably still gripe! Doctors are never 100% happy.
