Himada,
I would be glad to go over any aspect of Amazing Charts with you by telephone. I will give you my phone number via PM. You are wise to undertake it very slowly. I don't think the actual program needs a lot of time to implement, but the strategies for backups and importing do.
I am not very familiar with e-bridge solutions (I glanced at the website), so maybe someone else could help there. I am very big on redundancy and backups. Two biggest problems with data loss: hard drive crashes and human error. With any billing program or EMR, I would start with the server and work back. If possible, using RAID1 or RAID1 plus RAID5 (we use RAID5 only) gives you better performance and redundancy right away. While very good backups allow you to recover your data, you will still be down at least one day if not more. With RAID1, you will only experience a hiccup, if that, and it will only be important to replace the bad drive ASAP. And, with RAID5 plus a hot spare, you can lose a drive and not even know it and it would rebuild to the hot spare. One only has to replace the bad drive, and it becomes the hot spare. Very cool set up.
Then, of course, you need complete and redundant backups of the ENTIRE server at least daily along with specific backups of your imports, AC and billing. I am not sure how this would work with your e-bridge or if it would make these other steps not necessary.
Yes, you can eFax with AC. Basically, after the prescription is ready to be printed and is in the preview mode, you can do anything with that prescription that you could do in Word. eFax may not be the cheapest. RingCentral is cheap and there are others. I used to use RingCentral, and I found that I lost about 1 prescription in 15. You are much better off with a networkable fax machine that allows you to fax directly from your modem. In this way, we have lost none out of thousands, and it is free. Either way it works off the print setup and print drivers. One user on here uses ActFax
http://www.actfax.com/en/ which I believe is a one-time purchase where you fax over the Internet. Our fax machine is capable of faxing over the Internet, but the pharmacy you are faxing to must have the same capability.
I can't say much about Tablets as I have never used them. I imagine they are all pretty good, but there are threads on here devoted to that section. These are all my opinions, but I am a big believer in desktops everywhere AC is used including the exam rooms with printers.
With MED list for pediatrics, if you are referring to the database, I made my own which you can download at
http://tinyurl.com/26bb3x I am about to upgrade to a new version and simply the database, but basically it will be the same. I would make it open source, but I am too controlling at this point. Maybe down the road a bit.
The last topic has been hashed and rehased among users from when AC has been first introduced. First, it is a fairly rock solid program that for the cost is unbeatable.
This is a lists of changes I emailed to some friends on here with a couple of tongue-in-cheek ones which I hope don't offend anyone. There are a lot of changes people want but Jonathan probably doens't have time to implement all of them.
•Change Past Visits so diagnoses populate instead of chief complaint
•Change prescription writer so you can save certain scripts like Prednisone tapers
•Change databases so one can enter “dummy patients” for learning without counting them toward the real database
•Added one click backup
•Change the EULA to read, “I love you, you love me, we all love our great AC.”
•Changed saying on initial Amazing Charts screen to say, “I hate Medicaid” or “Boy, it sucks to be a doctor.” Instead of “Make it home for dinner.”
•Change the summary sheet to include a real problem list.
•Change orders so that only current diagnosis populates the requisition so that an MRI doesn’t have diagnoses of Seizures and Intestinal Parasites.
•Change immunization record so that A) one could delete the 50 old Expiration dates and Lot numbers, and B) so when Lot# B297C6 was entered it would automatically populate the field with Hib, Merck, 9/9/2008, 0.5mL and IM, etc.
Personally, I would like to see the code changed so that windows opened within windows rather than always opening in different windows which slows the program down considerably.
Cheers!
