LOL, this post is becoming like the ones in Experts Exchange or others where users quote and reply, etc. OK, with all due respect, I understand your concept. <G> And, if you can get Jon to put something like that into AC, it would be awesome. It is VERY much like Praxis in that it sort of "remembers" what you like to write. OK, now for some quotes:
"Bert, you may be able to edit *your* database. This is not within the reach of a lot of people.
As I stated in my first post, the point of this exercise was to come up with a way that the average user could *easily* do what you have done so elegantly: create a customized medication database."
Brian, thanks for the compliment on the elegance. But, what you are proposing is far more elegant and helpful than just a simple database. I HAVE TO DISAGREE VEHEMENTLY ON ONE POINT: Editing *My* database is just as hard or easy as editing the *Original* database. Editing either database is extremely simple. Easier, I would say, than taking a blood pressure, and I should know as my nurse was sick today. <G>
You double-click on the AmazingMeds database. It opens. If there are 15 entries for Amoxicillin of which five a redundant, you right-click on that row and delete. It's that simple. If you want to add a med, you type one in. Simple. It's not what you are proposing which, again, as the others have said would be incredibly helpful but much simpler "at this point in time."
I agree with you on Praxis as well or I wouldn't be using Amazing Charts since the fall of 2003. I only brought it up, because I used it in a practice once for about a month and it is extremely cool. There are 500 EMRs in one group which use drill down and are template driven and then there is Praxis which is on the other side and different from any EMR ever thought of, let alone made. But, I don't want to sound like I am advertising for them or I will get in trouble, lol.
"If my custom database is separate from AmazingMeds, then you still have AmazingMeds to go to for that kind of comprehensive reference."
Good point. And, I would come back with this analogy: If you drove a car for NASCAR which was your top car. (like your database), but you needed a backup car in case yours crashed or whatever; wouldn't you want that car to be a very good car and not a terrible car that goes 20 mph slower?
In other words, if I used your database, because it makes my job a lot easier and works really well and cool, but I needed to have the full database in case I needed it, I would want that database to be complete and close to perfect and NOT like the one that comes with AC. Does that make sense? So, in effect you would need two.
Score:
Brian 8 Bert 3
I better quit while I'm behind.
PS, though. Please don't come away from this thread thinking it is even close to being hard to edit the AmazingMeds database.
Last edited by bert; 08/17/2007 10:39 PM.
