There is Instant Medical History (which costs money) and does a fancy job of interviewing a patient with certain medical complaints, but I have yet to find it easy to customize. The last time I checked, there were like 30 questions for migraines, many of which I don't ask children and adolescents. It has gotten better, and they did give me a new trial period, but I was unable to get another trial period with AC.
I am in the process of trying out Instant Medical History. I'm still not sure how they justify charging $50 *PER MONTH*. Is this thing frequently updated/upgraded? I just want to buy the program outright and get on with it.
I am not sure how IMH would go over with patients completing the questionnaire in a lobby kiosk, but I was kind of hoping that my nurse could use it to get a rudimentary history when she takes the patient to the exam room, and then I could fill in the gaps afterward.
I know this is not using all the features of IMH, but I am trying to solve a specific problem: the nurse was hired before the EMR was purchased, and she's just not a great typist.
However, I find so far that IMH asks a lot of dopey questions that might be forgivable in an impersonal computer, but would not be forgivable if the nurse asked them. We will see if she can use common sense and skip the dumb questions. And, I will see if I can easily eliminate the questions I don't want asked.
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