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My local hospital is looking at EPOWERDOC for the emergency room. I haven't had the sales pitch, but looking at the website makes it look like a purely template driven program. Anyone with any experience with it (pro or con)?

Thanks,

Tom

nope, sorry

Speaking of hospitals and EMRs, etc. When I first started, in order to access Powerchart, you had to go out and buy an expensive Cisco Firewall with Easy VPN capabilities. Then a highly intelligent IT person called and you exchanged a couple of IPs and "Wham!" you were all set. Log in to Powerchart in about 20 seconds with one window and one password.

Then they got the great idea of scrapping all that and going to a secure portal. So, now with two usernames and two passwords and four web pages open it takes over 90 seconds to get in. That's if the sequence, click, wait for Java, pray that your certificate matches the hospitals, if it doesn't, force it by clicking through, enter username, enter password, wait on Java, and then you're in. Oh, wait, given the multitude of passwords and waiting, did I enter the wrong password three times. Oh, now I have to call the help desk and fax a picture over and sing my high school fight song so I can identify myself and get a new password.

AARRGGHH!! Progress. But, at least I have an expensive and cool firewall.

You're lucky!

In addition to those usernames and passwords etc, I have to enter a PIN and the six-digit sequence on my electronic keychain fob.