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Two of the Doctors who were my preceptors when I was an Intern have come to my office for a Saturday afternoon walk through of the EMR experience. They are both in their 60's and 70's and have a third partner that I don't know, (and who didn't come to the office so I suspect is not interested in an EMR).

I am interested in how some of you would 'test the waters'. I have proposed to them that we buy a PC, server (but without MS server software yet) and two inexpensive notebooks and an all in one as well as a wireless hub and 1 terabyte external hard drive. I propose that they begin scanning old charts and shredding them, instead of sending any more to the shredder, and that they set up Amazing Charts and run peer to peer in the evenings, using the free trial with less than 10 patients loaded. I will give them my templates, and help them weed out the ones they won't use and give them some help getting custom templates made up for them.
I propose having the office manager or some other computer literate employee find out how to make templates and how to organize the templates to facilitate the physicians rapidly getting up to speed on charting a note. Then I propose they take the most frequent flyers and enter one or two, charting visits or even generating a hospital H&P as I do. Since they are not active they can simply print out the entire visit and enter it back into the paper chart. If they are unable to enter the modern age, then they will be left with a good system for storing old records, and two laptops.
Your comments?

Sounds good to me. And, worst case scenario, you end up with two laptops.

Martin,

God Bless you, you old geezer! It is comforting to know that there are people out there willing to help us old farts. But, as I am sure you know, 60 IS NOT THAT OLD !!!!!



Leslie

But, as I am sure you know, 60 IS NOT THAT OLD !!!!!

I'll let you know in a few more months,... sigh.