Can any of you guys help me with this thread? I'm being viciously attacked by the pro-CCHIT, pro-P4P emrupdate lobby:
http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/p/11907/76255.aspx#76255Ironically, there are no American docs other than the one (who owns eCW) doing the attacking. His helpers include the vendors for NextGen, eMedRec, and medtuity! I have to warn, you, though... there are nasty pictures and even an R rated version of "Forrest Gump" at the end. I'll probably get kicked out of emrupdate forever after this...
Doesn't surprise me. My partner and I were pretty mad at Jon last year, and got a copy of Medtuity to try. We installed a live copy of the software (enabled with 35 encounter tokens) and the damn thing didn't work worth a darn. Was way to cumbersome to use, even if it WAS pretty, and we could never check a patient OUT and have them LEAVE THE BUILDING. They told us "oops! we fixed that.. " yeah, well, it shows that the program is near impossible to run a real practice on. Jon's got close to 1500 users and AC is growing every day. After looking at about 15 other products, we reached the same conclusion we've reached three times in four years - the program works and does most of what most of us need it to do. Jon and I worked out our issues, and we all moved on. BTW.. there's a reason most of these companies won't give you a live copy of their software to pound on.
Why bother debating them? My feeling is walk away and leave the emrupdate people to play in their own sandbox, while we run our practices.
Is nice that the VENDORS have all this time on their hands for forum posts.. maybe they should fix their products instead of wasting their time blogging. You'll notice, btw.. that Jon rarely makes an appearance here - not because he doesn't care, but because he's busting his BUTT to get the updates out and the bugs fixed.
I'd ignore 'em and walk away.
Regards,
V.
