Sandeep's reply above leads me to wonder about the current state of EMR's

I have been using AmazingCharts for about 8 years now -- and still find it frustrating in many ways, but I have workarounds, and I get my notes done and my bills sent.
I never heard of Medisoft or Lytec -- but in searching for information about them I see that there are still about 150 or more systems available for small practices.

I don't know how one could evaluate them -- the reviews are not very helpful, and almost none of them will tell you what the actual price is or how much it costs to switch from one to another, or what the learning curve might be -- so I just stick with tried and true AC. Hard to imagine how I could recoup the investment in money and time if I were to change -- even if some of my current annoyances were fixed. After all these years, and having struggled with one hospital system, then watched them switch to Cerner (which is horrible) and being on the receiving end of at least 3 hospital implementations of EPIC -- I can say that I don't think that any of them really are very helpful in terms of improving practice efficiency or inter-professional communication.

What surprised me most was that eClinicalWorks says it has the biggest market share with >850,000 users -- and I have never heard anything positive about it.

Where are we going with this technology??

Also, does anyone have any report about AC 10.2? I'm sill on 10.0.1 -- am I missing anything



Tom Duncan
Family Practice
Astoria OR