Gang,
As Jon had told us as much, it seems that our nice little EMR is starting to get hit with Feature Creep. Now some features may be great, and what is one man's junk is another man's art, but I think that we all might want to think long and hard about what we wish for verses what we really need. I as much as anybody else have been guilt of such in the past, so I fess up as one of the contributers to this issue. And some of the features that were added are really neat and/or helpful too and many thanks to Jon and his team for their time and efforts for all the work that certainly went into making them for all of us.
But as Bert, Roy, Vinny and a number of others have pointed out so many times before that the main thing that makes AC so valuable to all of us, is it ease of use, straight forward design, that helps our offices flow smoothly, providers chart easily and just in general live a better life thru eligant design, by a man who understood what little offices like ours really needed.
So I was just thinking that perhaps some of the features we thought we needed but perhaps we really didn't, or were more pie in the sky wouldn't that be nice kind of things be re-thought before AC becomes some patch worked monster none of us would recognize. And before Jon and his team put too much time and effort into building and de-bugging features that may or may not be so needed and might actually hurt our favorite little EMR.
As the forementioned Brain Trust have also memtioned previously, what I think most AC users would really like is to polish and refine many of the things we sort of already have. Tighten up various sections like the codes, the vaccine section, the enhanced PM features so all data works smoothly from the medical side to the business side back and forth (and no more need for less than perfect other 3rd party softwares and linking programs), the reminder system, and all the other things we already know and use every day.
It is just a thought. We love our AC and it is a large part of our daily work flow around here, and we would hate to see it become too bloated like many of the other programs that Al and others have warned us about. As Leslie, Wayne, Bert, and Roy have warned me before, be careful of what you wish for with AC, you just might get it.... What say all of you???
Thanks,
Paul
