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WOW!!

CLAIRIFICATION........ I just switched FROM AC(2009) to PRAXIS(2020)...... I'm 53 and will likely (financially and for the love of my craft and impacting peoples lives in the way I have been blessed to have learned) be treating people even on the day I die (if I'm that lucky)

COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY...... BOARD CERTIFIED FP specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation.... WITHOUT any financial or business links to Praxis.

AC was the bottleneck to me being able to get charts done and was costing me dearly in relation to my most precious commodity....... TIME.

Used Meditech (as a hospitalist x 10 years) , Athena (FP Multi-disciplinary practice for 10 years), AC (trying to build a private practice in Pittsfield MA and now in The Adirondacks) extensively and my ONLY REGRET SWITCHING TO Praxis is that I even had to switch. I honestly think that my life would have been infinitely easier and I can only imagine the time I might have saved had I been using praxis from the start.

Praxis has a STEEP LEARNING CURVE, ONLY BECAUSE you have to teach it how YOU practice medicine but the amazing thing is that as your practice of medicine evolves, Praxis evolves with you, ON THE FLY, making your life easier, faster and SAFER for you and your patients.

You made the time investment to become a Doctor, now make the time investment to get your time back!!!!! 100% worth it.

I am a subspecialist practicing Biodynamic Approach to CranioSacral Osteopathy and as such, my HPIs tend to dig a little deeper than some. Being able to embed selectable discreet variables into my chart has enabled me to complete an IN DEPTH, FOCUSED HPI faster than if using the templates in any other EMR even with VOICE RECOGNITION which I have not really seen a need to invest in yet as I am waiting for Praxis to transition to open cloud server access so I can use Apple's native voice recognition software which I have found to be at least as good as Dragon.

In my practice, the details can be very important....... this is a VERY simple example of the flexibility I have built into MY Praxis, that incorporates a series of tweaks that make using it even easier. This example is SIMPLE and I have many much more complicated examples that I use to collect accurate (searchable) data very quickly while TALKING to my patient, allowing me to actually have a conversation with my patient BECAUSE of the time it saves me from frantically typing while collecting important information.

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(NOT TO BE MISSED OR OVERLOOKED.......... Praxis has THE BEST AND MOST AVAILABLE SUPPORT structure I have ever experienced. PRICELESS!!!! Meditech/Athena/AC??? NOT SO MUCH!!!)



I can QUICKLY determine if their complaint is chronic, acute or acute on chronic, and for how long and be asking the NEXT question as I finish documenting this information, with just a few clicks (we're NEVER getting away form the clicks but with praxis, you accomplish much more per click than I have ever experienced in any other EMR) without missing a beat. When the new version of Praxis becomes available, I can only imagine how much easier this will all be when I can start using Apple's Voice Recognition in conjunction with Praxis's DATUM to fill in details that inevitably arise while collecting any HPI.


While working in the Hospital (Meditech) and the Multidisciplinary Group (Athena) one of my greatest fears was missing some of the most simple aspects of medicine with some of the greatest exposure, not ordering the colo, mamo, paps for patients and especially those patients with special considerations. Hell, maintenance care was literally a nightmare. I asked to have things automatically implemented into the chart, or even reminders to schedule followups for a specific group of patients and the response I got more often than not was ....... THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA!!!! REALLY?????
The response I got from my trainer was, let me show you how to do that for this patient, for that patient AND for ALL PATIENTS, with FILL IN THE BLANK ..... NEVER TO BE MISSED AGAIN.

Being a sub specialist, I have but nary scratched the surface of what this program is capable of. I get to send all my patient's back to their PCPs for all tests and I don't write any scripts or orders so I would be lying to you if I started to opine on those aspects of Praxis but having practiced in FP and as a Hospitalist, I have a unique perspective to offer in that I can certainly relate how what I have seen and know about Praxis could have applied to my previous practice of medicine and how each new functionality I learn about Praxis could have impacted my practice of medicine and it makes me even more angry that I haven't been using Praxis from the beginning. This EMR has the HIGHEST Customer Satisfaction Rating for a multitude very good reasons. Is it perfect??? NO!!! In my opinion..... THE BEST that I have ever used.

If you don't EXPLORE making the switch NOW, I suspect you will regret it for a long.......TIME!!!!!


I would be more than happy to talk to any or all, separately or in conference call. I certainly wish that SOMEONE / ANYONE had recommended Praxis to me 10 years ago!!!!