When Ruben and I (Ruben = tech support for the board), we sent many emails to anyone who had posted in the past five years. There is a link on the site but it doesn't go here. When AC was making some switches with their servers, they decided to NOT continue the board. The board is a fantastic commercial for them because not all EMRs have such a board you can frequent and ask questions and get both sides of the question.
AC, though, didn't like some of the negative press it was getting from the board. And, to be honest, it was getting some negative comments. But, that is usually not overall, it is something like this thread that goes on and on about how it is not working.
We wish that AC would like to here. It would be to their benefit. One is going to trust real users who have no reason to lie about things than the one or two people, say Athena, has you talk to who will say only positive yet biased points of view. We also (Jon Schreiber) and others don't have the rapport and direct communication to the higher ups like we need with Jon Bertman and Prime... (I can't think of the whole word -- pretty stupid of me.) Used to be we could email John Squire, the CEO and president of AC and talk directly to him. Or Chris. Or others. And, we had a group of doctors (Clinicians Advisory Board) that met weekly.
As to the issue with EPCS automatically going out 30 days is something that some pharmacies like, i.e. "Do not fill before such and such a date." Here it is only Hannaford who won't accept our usual 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3, which is actually better. Ironically, if you write it that way, NewCrop will let you load something like Concerta 54 mg, 1 po daily, dispense 30 three times although if you just do it with the 1 of 3 and 2 of 3....way they won't which is NewCrop being absolutely frigging stupid. The three are going there anyway.
