I just don't know why anyone would move to 8.2.4 without testing it first.
Hi Bert,
Why would we run this without testing? Well...... because........
Electronic medical records, and computer networking, is not "fun" for me. It's work. Troubleshooting hardware can be fun, I take great pride in the fact that I found bad memory chips recently in a few of our computers. Swapping a hard drive to an SSD is fun. Troubleshooting and repairing the autoclave is actually fun. But setting up a trial version of the Amazing Charts is clearly in the "work" category.
I devote far too much of my life, and my time, to work. I'm always behind, there are always forms to complete, labs to go over, charts to complete, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth?
So the idea of taking a considerable chunk of time, to "try out" a new version of Amazing Charts, is not appealing. And it takes time away from doing other work related things.
But I did this in the past. You may remember Amazing Charts 6.0.9., The first version for meaningful use. 2011, I think. I downloaded and installed it over the weekend, and played with it quite a bit, everything seemed fine.
Until Monday morning. I had not tried the prescription writer, which was PAINFULLY slow. AC support had no answers. We went through 2 weeks of EMR hell until a newcomer to this board, a young guy named Sandeep, solved this.....
So, even if I were to load a trial version, I'm not sure problems would necessarily be detected until it went through the rigors of a busy morning with all users actively using it.
We will require ICD 10. So my strategy is actually going to be to wait until mid-September, and upgrade to the current version of AC, presumably 8.2.4.
For various reasons, we use wireless laptops in the exam rooms. I understand speed here may be an issue. So the backup plan is to use the laptop with RDP and let the desktop (hardwired) do the work.
So if I sound like an old curmudgeon, that's probably accurate!
Gene
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