Originally Posted by SOLODOCMOM
So with desktops in each room, are you logging in and out all day?

I just log in the desktop and stay logged in. The MA's access my desktop directly in the room. Patients could also access my computer, but I'm trusting that they don't. They wouldn't know how to use AC anyway. There is nothing on the computer otherwise that they could harm, so I don't mind leaving the computers open. It's rare that we are running behind, so the opportunity is rarely present for a patient to snoop around on a computer. In 6.5 years of solo practice, I've never walked into a room to find someone on the computer. Yes a security risk, I know, but with my patient demographic there is little about which I need to worry when it comes to this issue.


Adam Lauer, DO (solo FP)
Twin City Family Medicine
Brewer, ME