Can I throw a few idea out here?
Perhaps Amazing Charts can do what our government can't - ask AC users for a one time extra voluntary payment specifically directed towards the improvement they would most like to see. I for one would love a Word-compatible letter writer (I'm a neurologist and write lots of letters to other docs). I for one would be willing to pay extra for that component to be added. Perhaps Jon can provide for posting a rough estimate of the manpower costs to provide and implement such improvements as:
- MS word compatible letter writer
- Allergies section that is not over-documented
- fields that expand as you type in them (with one scrollbar to view the entire chart -
- an interventions field - either added to the main view or as an Item-Type in Imported Items
etc. etc . . .
I wonder if Bert could again supppy the documentation of the most user-wanted changes, and If Jon could provide an estimate their cost, and if we could run an ? Amazing-Charts-A-thon? where users could donate specifically to the improvements they would want to see implemented in an attmept to reach the financial goal of paying for the improvment. (I believe AC is very reasonably priced, and users might be willing to pitch in, particularly as the changes benefit the users in both convenience and quite possibly efficiency/bottom-line)
Idea #2. : Instead of asking for a one time donation or perhaps parallel to, perhaps Jon may be willing to let some of the users actually do the heavy-lifting and write in some of the improvement into the program themselves? I have the sense a number of users are programming-savvy and might be willing to write the actual code for some of the desired improvements, which could then be submitted to the AC programming staff for review and tweaking. (I'd volunteer, but I don' know how to write code)
Anyway . . .just an idea -
Bruce Morgenstern (Neurology)
Denver, CO
