Bert;
No offense taken. I should have know better about the caps.
I am in general responding to the e-mail newsletter from AC announcing the delay in release of 4.0 and the request for improvements as we move on.
I am currently getting around the problem by organizing under ASSESSMENT as follows;
#1 assessment
treatment,
#2 assessment
treatment,
#3 assessment
treatment
I do by the way list here Rx*** and ORDER*** in short hand under treatment in addition to it being listed under plan.
Then, under "Plan" I am numbering #1,#2, #3 and listing what I plan to do on follow up visit depending on response to treatment.
My other issue is having an ongoing list of what has been done for the patient in past visits. How many times did I inject that heel spur? When did I do it? When did I do that surgery? Didn't I treat this patient for a wart last year?
The cumbersome way I am getting around this (but better than looking thru each past encounter note)is copying every injection or strapping or surgery into the past medical history box, listing for instance "inject heel spur right 3/3/09" "Bunion surgery right 4/5/09" etc. When I start a new note, I have a history on the left of what has been done.
I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem and if there was a way to automate it?
Everything I say is with a large grain of salt. Dollar for dollar, AC offer the best ROI of any EMR out there by a factor of 30 (as in $30,000).
Thanks for the comments
Sam
