Bert,
You always have the great techno heads work around suggestion. But what I'm looking for is an actual feature with that "button" so we can sort of have a database within a database or AC just tracks and assigns two databases. One for all the "real" patients in the real practice and one for false patients and family members. Or perhaps another easier to design Idea would be to have all copies of AC come with the real practice and the "Practice Practice" and that we are all entitled to use the practice practice as we see fit for any non-practice purposed. Like Med Students and Resisdence, new staff training, showing off AC, and charting non-practice based patients, like family and James Bond's.
On another suggestion. We have created a patient named, "New Patient" and we use him to hold slots for new patients that have yet to estblish. Again we don't want AC's numbers to tell us that we have hundreds of extra patients that new lived to estblish. This is why the button to then put all info in this second database is really best.
We can put a never estblished patient over there for tracking and documenting purposes; but yet they are NOT part of all our numbers for our real patients. And should little miss no-show, no-call ever live to estblish we still have her stuff in AC and can then switch her over. It also documents that we took her stuff and that she no-showed on us, so we are covered in case she wants to call "Do We Cheat 'Em and Howe" because she claims that we dropped the ball on her care some how. We can have all her calls and appointments, missed and otherwise still documented and yet still off of the main datebase. Again if AC wants to become a EMR with a great PM then these are the types of issues that we are going to need to track and address. All while having ways of NOT skewing our demographics and financial numbers all to hell on no-show, never-established "patients?". Get it?
But good try there...
Paul
