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What a great flow of ideas!
I found alot of passionate users at the ACUC conference in June and I can certainly see the heavy energy of you all. I guess we all have a great desire (and need) to make this program really work and hopefully be part of a small company that might whip the great IT companies. I remember IBM trying to sell me a system for $5000 back in the 80's and I'm sure it would have done nothing more than make me poor. Even though AC Inc is preoccupied with getting the product out right now, I'm sure they are listening to the clatter from us users, and they know that their and our success are tightly bound together.
I do beleive that the EMR is a finite problem and that we are in early adolescence and feeling the anxiety of growing. It is really quite scarry to commit all of your medical life to a spining magnetic disk. As you all know you can carry all of your life around now in a thumb drive ... makes a lot of physicians say "huh" and feel quite uneasy. I think AC the program and AC the small company are our golden opportunity to produce a truly usefull, flexible, and controllable experience for phyhsicians in private practice. It will give us the power to really do the job we have been trying to do with paper records and our good and above average memories for the past fifty years. Having an EMR is a very heady and empowering experience for me. When I answer my calls I no longer guess and relive old problems with the party on the other end of the phone. It produces a much more productive physicain - patient relationship.
When it doesn't work GRRRRR.
I'm sure we can beat this problem with a group of user Docs we have here and I look forward to contributing my 2 cents worth of sweat.
One thing I would like very much. A two page description of how AC program works as it sits on top of the data base. A simplitied flow chart would be just fine, with a little wire going out to the side for the internet connection.
It's my impression that the Rx Writer uses the internet to complete the drug interaction process. Could it be that we might be having problems connecting to servers that might be slowing down the program.?? I surveyed all the DNS servers and by changing my DNS URL's in network connections I improved my time to connect speed quite a bit. Maybe I'm dreaming but the big change in AC recently has included a more intensive exchange with the internet. I know that's going to be a factor in the queries for insurance status that are coming in version7. Good fast communications with important servers at insurance companies should take some carefull investigation and thought. Of course it would be nice to know how the program acutally works, since this impacts significantly on how our local networks, routers and modems do their job. I don't want and don't have the skills to hack this thing ... I just want a road map of the major throughways.
