"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."
(Just way too much to quote) I didn't know it was now $50.00 per month. That solves it for me. That's WAY too much money. I would rather use a standalone program like HotDocs or the Word one which I forget the name of.
"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."
Again, an issue with pediatrics. We would have three year olds downloading the latest version of Doom. There is a cool way to password protect it in a maximized setup so patients can use it there. The only time I would want patients to use it would be for the inital visit with family history.
"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."
For $50.00 per month, shouldn't IMH do the typing?
"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."
I would only want customized histories.
