Leslie,
You may not be waiting on a PMR module , but I am.
When I first started using AC (November, 2007), I was told that a PMR was likely due out July, 2009..........................................................................
I'd love to go to ACUC, but a feel a central location (or alternating parts of the country) would be better.
Frank, a non-compensated user, poorly compensated physician, loving father and husband, die hard New York Yankee and New York Jet fan and just a squirrel trying to get a nut.
First this is a great thread with a lot of good points.
I just want to add one observation for Yankees fan, which goes with Bert and Leslie on this. At the First ACUC in Branson we were all excited to hear Jon roll out his first parts of the PM module. I personally was overjoyed to hear that the first thing he had done was dump the usual format in the trash and start with something which much more clearly would show a simple Doctor, what you charged, what was paid (on what) and what is owed! No debits and credits etc, just plain English served up on a bun of common sense. Then a lady in the audience that was the biller for a large group asked a pertinent question. She said she didn't care what you want to call the debits and credits, (which they will of course remain, no matter what you call them), but she hoped she did not understand him correctly to mean that his item entries would not be posted in a ... (vertical column? I don't remember exactly this part). He said, yes why not? She explained that all of the posting is done by a ten key and the enter key, his plan you would need a mouse click for every entry. The room went dead silent. Afterward he turned back to address the room and said, Oh my God, I am making the (blank)(not e-clinical works, but some other retarded EMR) of billing systems. Then he said, OK this will take some work. I know for a fact that since then he has sat down in focus groups with some of us and taken extensive notes about how we want to capture the data, (AND WHAT DATA WE MIGHT WANT TO HAVE AT HAND AS WE WORK). If he can do one tenth of what was discussed, it should be awesome, and I believe well worth waiting for. At least well worth waiting a little longer. (lol)
