Chock,

It is not just you. I do not use the message module for anything but messages (except on a very rare occasion) and reminders. I do not forward charts back and forth to staff. Charts are opened in the room under my log in and stay open like this even when the nurses are charting in them (I am solo). I finish charts and sign them off before I leave the room so I am not forwarding them to myself for signing later. My labs are not directly imported into the message box. I agree this is an area that could use some serious work.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "