I am an internist in an 8 physician group, 7 primary care and one pulmonologist. We have around 15 K patients, but are essentially solo providers sharing common overhead with our billing done with lytec which we just upgraded to lytec 11. We are seriously leaning towards AC EMR considering utilizing xlink to interface lytec with our EMR and we utilize Quest as our lab. We have an on site and off site server and are all hard wired, and each "pod" has one physician with one nurse and two exam rooms which will have encrypted wifi so have the capability of using lap top or tablets. One FP already using eclinical but seriously thinking of switching as well.
Just purchased a fujistsu scan snap s1500 scanner and 2 HP elite book 8460 notebook PC with 8 GB i5 2520m processor. I currentlyl have been using dragon and have 1500 plus pseudoelectronic records--still have a hard chart but also keep the dictated notes on my HP PC.
My main question is how would one best utilize what i have described thus far in seeing about 15 patients a day, with two exam rooms, and one nurse. My thought wouid be to have my nurse do intake, vitals and short history with her notebook pc and i follow to complete the encounter with my notebook pc and possibly dictate using dragon on my hardwired PC in my office.
My other question is how AC interfaces with the upgraded lytec ll with xlink, anyone currently doing this and do they play well together. Also is tracking data for meaningful use made any easier with xlink to lytec where all our demographics are currently held. I am hoping all data can be transferrable from lytec to AC, according to our local IT man it will, still waiting to hear answer from AC IT person. Also is our group size too large for AC to accomodate. Any groups as large or large currently using AC and does it work?
Thanks for your time--first time on this post but I am fascinated and thrilled to have such a forum to seek answers as this is new territory for most of us in our group, myself included.
