I believe 100% of our 'slowness' is in just two areas. Loading the labs from Quest, and the drug interactions. I have turned off Drug interactions and it definitely picks up the speed. I also have begun MOST of my work in the room with the patient running my laptop as a terminal for the server which makes a small improvement in the speed of opening labs. Mostly I print the labs before I go in the room, and open the prior labs on a different computer so that when the labs come off the printer I can hand write in the prior values for items of interest, (The PSA or A1C or the lipids for example.) Then when I go in the room I don't need the laps open and that speeds up the visit with the patient. I do REALLY like drug interactions sometimes, especially when I reconcile the meds, and enter some chemotherapy agent or the latest anti-arhtyhmia drug that the specialist is Rxing. Basically life is good.
Martin T. Sechrist, D.O. Striving for the "Outcome Oriented Medical Record".
