No one would disagree that this is a hard time for EMR manufactures: They seem increasingly barraged with questionably useful government mandates that (arguably - (but not from me)) seek to replace professional thought and judgment with increasingly Byzantine and complicated rules and checklists; and that these mandates are, ironically, almost counterproductive to the goal of an elegant, efficient and intuitive patient record.
That said, the goal of this thread seems to be to articulate and consolidate basic user-generated requests -ones which are popular, and which could be easily implemented by AC, even while it struggles to keep up with government mandates.
I for one believe that among these could certainly be:
1. clearer, more easily-read color coded allergy warnings
2. Some type of field or tab that could act as a repository for frequently required & accessed information, and that this field could be addressable and alterable in the chart without initiating a new patient encounter
3. Some type of problem list which would be easily accessible, easily annotated, and allow for retiring of inactive problems
4. Customizable user-generated Sigs/instructions for prescriptions- which would eliminate the need to ever rewrite the same prescription once it has been written the first time - NewCrop tells me the Scriptwriter already has this capability.
. . .So I agree that Amazing Charts has its work cut out for it keeping up with government mandates, but perhaps, under its new leadership, it would consider devoting a small component of its resources to product improvements that are shown to be both frequently requested and easily implemented
Bruce Morgenstern, MD (Neurology)
Denver CO
