Alright, I bit the bullet and upgraded the office to v5. eRx was one of the temptations. But the main reason I went for it was the new HL7 interface with my PM program (CollaborateMD). I and my office really like our PM system and this should eliminate double entry and the possibility of entry errors.
The upgrade went quite quickly and I had the entire office up and running in less than an hour. I've quickly disabled the health maintenance alerts.
I have started the habit of just logging off instead of closing the entire program which is better. I guess the long start up time irritates me because that is 1 minute of my life I won't get back. I also do it several times per day because I'm back and forth to the office instead of just coming in, logging in, and working all day.
While I'm on the "wish list": I never put an icd-9 code in the diagnosis box on a patient encounter. Mainly because it's too tedious to search each time for the code and I don't have my paper superbill in front of me when charting. So why not have a small button next to the "search Dx (icd9)" button that says "common Dx". Then I could put in all the diagnoses that are on my normal superbill. Quick and easy. You can do that for the E/M codes but not for the ICD-9.
