Hi Naeem,
Your questions and concerns are right on the mark.
I have used Amazing Charts for just short of 16 years, the entire time I have been in private solo practice. On the one hand, Amazing Charts works, it is cheap, it is on a locally hosted server so I do not have to worry about Internet problems, and our work flow is established. So I really, really, really do not want to rock the boat.
On the other hand, the future of Amazing Charts is the great unknown. I am not ready to write it off, by any means, but I am not totally confident either.
I am intrigued by the artificial intelligence programs, but wonder how much they will work in real life in our practice setting. So many of our patients are older, with multiple, multiple medical problems.
I also just plain do not look forward to a transition. My learning curve, all of the staff's learning curve, perhaps having to change billing clearing house (which probably would give a significant short-term cash flow hit), lab interfaces, there would be a lot of stuff required. Data conversion never goes as well as promised. Productivity would suffer, and I am not sure that I have the energy for that right now.
So..my answer at this point is total denial.
Our server was set up by Sandeep, it is close to 7 years old, I had been thinking of replacing it. However, it is currently working well, and I think is a very high likelihood that if we change to another EMR it will be cloud based, not locally hosted.
One final thought. If Amazing Charts is abandoned, I doubt that there will just be "closed" or "the end". I imagine Amazing Charts would be sold to another vendor, who would support it for a short period of time, maybe 6 months, and would offer some discount to switch over to their EMR. The possible advantage to this scenario would be data conversion, they probably would be proficient at that process, from Amazing Charts.
So, to get back to your question, which one is best? Please let me know when you find out
Gene
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