Bert: You understand correctly about sharing a database. Our hospital/employer owns our remote FP group (4 providers) 8 miles from the hospital campus, a gen surgeon/GI/ortho in 1 group on campus, and 2 FP's in a group on campus. In May they tried to implement a crappy (as in Fortran) underdeveloped EMR (CPSI)for all docs using a single database. I have the same privacy concerns, plus concerns about data corruption. All the docs are under 1 umbrella, like a group practice without walls, but it is not presented to the public like one practice. The EMR rollout was a disaster - everyone hated it except administration, and they backed off-we stopped using the EMR, but are trying to bring it back in order to recoup the money they invested in this piece of crap by planning to get Meaningful Misuse funds. I am the only one using Amazing Charts, and all the staff and docs in my group want AC.
