Chock,

I have laptops in each exam room. I log on under my name every morning. The staff then room the patients and simply enter the Chief Complaint, vitals, update medications then lock the screen and leave. I enter the room, unlock the screen and do the rest. The chart is signed off in the room. And, yes, the staff does use "my computer". It can then be opened by the front office person to see what she has to do or she can wait until I leave the room, walk the 5 steps to her desk and reiterate what I want her to do. I can have 3 patients pulled up at one time in different rooms. You cannot log onto the same current encounter on more than one computer. You can however pull up a chart on another computer and review imported items or past encounters. Personally, for the way I work and the way my staff was used to working, this logging in and logging out stuff is a pain. If I were using a paper chart, you would not have separate sheets for each person who enters info. Ideally, with the EMR, there would be a very simple way to note who wrote what without logging on and off.


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. "