We have powerful computers these days, hell my iphone is more powerful than my 25mhz Tandy desktop from the 1990's. There is really no reason why AC shouldn't be able to build in a simple page or tab or something that takes all this information (BMI, smoking, etc) and spit out the ICD-9 (or god forbid ICD-10) code that matches that prompts you 'AC has found that based on an analysis of your patients chart the following ICD codes are recommended for ..... would you like to add them to your chart?'
The software should be able to automatically do this...
I agree with Leslie at some point we'll all be forced to see medicare/medicaid at which point we might as well move to a single payer system like in the UK. I can have my government required office in one place and my private practice office across the street where I can make more.
