Wow!!!!!
I am a bit embarassed. I started this thread and didn't get a lot of response right away so I thought it was abandoned. Guess I was wrong. Took me nearly a 1/2 hour to read it all.

Melanie,
Just wanted to give you my two cents of advice on what I have learned in implementing AC in our office. We too have 4 providers, 1-MD, 2-ARNP's and 1 PA-C. We are open M-F and about 3 Saturdays a month for 1/2 day with 1 provider in office. 3 of our providers work 4 days a week and 1 works 1 day a week. We see on average 15 to 20 patients per provider. So some days 30-40 and busy days 50-60ish. After much investigation we chose AC and after much more investigation decided to start implementing with our most "Tech Savy" provider on staff (who also was the only one who voluntered). We didn't really worry too much about workflow processes in the beginning because we just wanted to learn the program and understand how things would work and kind of went with the motto of "change things as we go". We have since implemented our MD who started in January and our PA-C in April. We have 1 more provider to go and we will be all electronic. Now I don't know about your providers but all of ours were at different stages of computer skills so some were easier then others. We are now at a stage where we are starting to figure out our workflow and what works best for us. AC can do most of what you are wanting to do with a few exceptions but there are ways around anything I have found. We do have our labs interfaced which has been a big plus. We still get paper from some labs and our next workflow process project is implementing a fax server or Updox type of software to further make us more efficient. I think you will be happy with AC and can adapt it to work for your office but my advice is to use it, learn it and then see what other tricks people on the AC board can help you with. That is how I have been doing it and it has worked very well for me.

Oh, and I have one provider who uses Dragon 11.0 and it works very well with AC. He had never used it before so it was a bit of a challange at first learning AC and Dragon at the same time. I would advise to start using Dragon first before AC.

Good Luck!

Robynne
Lacey , WA