Thanks Jon for a good summary of the meeting. Some other points I would make:
Inlight is a new web based Problem Oriented Medical Record. It is currently for those with a direct primary care office as they do not have PM or billing component integrated into it. It has a separate group of programmers but we have jointly benefited from their developments.
One example would be the newer ICD natural language list in V7-8 group.
They have not given up on Amazing Charts, just looking in another direction to attract those who are looking for a better online option. (Yes AC has an online option but this is different.) There are few options in EMRs with on premises databases, AC will always have a place in the market.
PriMed AC is actively pursuing updating AC. It did get bogged down in governmental updates, but this was necessary just to stay in the market. There were 1100 EMRs that were MU1 certified but only something like 240 for MU2. Many of them dropped by the wayside. While you may think that MU is junk, probably most of the new adopters would see this as a requirement, and we would see a steady loss of current users who either ARE actively involved in MU2 or need related services to avoid getting cuts in other areas.
On another note...
AC is actively pursuing speed improvements in each version. They have heard and listened. Although they have testing networks set up, it's not the same as being in an office with a number of people working at the same time. They realize that many of the changes have slowed things are trying to focus on speed as a priority.
I will tell you that EVERY version of AC has been slower since version 2 or 3! Version 1 opened from initial click in 2-3 seconds, not the minute or so it now takes. Clicking on a chart opened it almost immediately. I believe it was V5 that slowed me down to a crawl in beta but bounced back. That was WAYYYYY worse than V8. Computers are faster and I have noticed that upgrading them is necessary to keep up with increased demands (see
http://amazingcharts.com/support/hardware-os-requirements/ ) Remember that AC used to work on Pentium 2 400 MHz with 128 Meg of memory.
Yes, it does a lot more but it also takes a lot more.
