I have been with Ac for voer a year now.
My practice has definetly become more effecient and manageable since I switched to an EMR
Here are the reasons
1. My staff and I do not have to go looking for paper charts
2. All forms that come in are filled and signed via Adobe Acrobat - so no more printing of paper and that has been a big saving for me.
3. All correspondence and faxes come in via PDF files and dealt with as in # 2
4. All pharmacy requests for refills are completed in the same way except for Narcotics which require my signature are printed as they will not accept electronic prescriptions
5. The message features of AC helps my staff and me communicate without interruption, of course unless there is an Emergency call .
6. When I am on vacation even for a few days all labs , correspondence are completed via the message system between me and my staff and I do not have to come back to a pile of waiting correspondenc, labs xrays as they are dealt with on a daily basis.
I use my remote Desktop to acess AC which is on my server
7.As far as templates are concerend I use them a lot but have to change some things that are difefrent that i find depending on my exam.
8. I use the Summary Section to track down all my preventive exams including Pap,Mammogram, Colonoscopies, Hemmocults,Labs- which keeps the lawyers away
9 I have learnt to delegate to my MA's and give them more responsibility as they have learnt the system.
10 All templates,Folders for Labs, Correrspondence, radiology, consultant reports etc are on a seperate shared drive as I have found out that the Import section of AC will not allow me to Stack files and slows me down
Initially I was doiing more but i find myself doing a bit less as I have begun to delegate.
Just some thoughts I thought I would share about my experience with AC.
Grenville
