No, but a related question -- if all the AC solo users in our area were to get together in a common practice (that is, when Hell freezes) could all of the data in all the implementations of AC be merged?
Can be done, has been done. But as has been alluded to before, the results are directly dependent on the quality of the data on the data that you start with; garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).
A related issue is what is called "slowly changing dimensions" in DB analytics. An example in patient data is payer information; the primary payer information changes over time, as well as the addition and subtraction of additional payers. Different practices may have different data which conflicts, even if it was accurate at the time that it was collected.
Bottom-line, it can be done, but requires some finesse.
I second your comments about CPSI -- a total disaster at our hospital, which is now replacing it (with something almost as bad, I fear) at a cost of $millions. What a racket, and how can a company be so bad for so long? Answer to that, of course, is there is no "free market" in medicine.
<chooses to skip the soapbox> Too True. I remember when I was told by a certain person that the way to get our proposal accepted {with large medical corporation} was a set of <certain expensive brand> golf clubs should appear. I considered about telling him *where* they would appear if it were up to me.
