The orders are a pain. Strangely, they are not my least favorite part of v5 after fighting with it for 3 weeks.
I do like that we can enter in the orders and fax them to the lab/radiology with the demographic/insurance/ICD-9 stuff on the sheet.
I wish the ICD-9 would go from a templated Assessment and directly into the orders but they don't unless you pull up the "Search Dx (ICD-9)" tab every single freakin time and click/find the diagnosis. Drives me insane (not a long trip
The diagnosis part needs work or we need a "quick list" of the most common 20 diagnosis just like a paper superbill.
I absolutely hate that we have to enter someone to send the orders to. Silly, especially in a small office like mine. That shouldn't be mandatory and should be automatically left blank if you don't need it.
If we're going to do it, provide the ability to EASILY reconcile the orders when they come back in and alert us if a CT or Lab is a week out and still not resulted or whatever.
I don't need a Nursing category (can I get rid of it? No). I don't need a Patient Ed category (can I get rid of it? No). That's easy and not that cumbersome though.
The numbering system is so that the common things are on top.
Why does v5 seem to want to organize everything in alphabetical order? It's driving me crazy when I click on multiple templated items and it puts them in alphabetical order. I would love it to enter them in the order I click them because that's usually the order of priority.
Orders are close. Just some tweaks. i think they are usable and we're battling through with them. Maybe the AC crew needs to look at the way eMDs or some other EMRs have made this a bit more seamless.
