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just a Friday kind of story, some will enjoy. I nag several of the doctors in my area, especially the consultants I use with the hope they will get EHR's and I will get great consultations in a timely manner!!
About 6 months ago, a pulmonologist I use, and nag constantly, let slip he was waiting for his current IT/software person to finish the EMR they were developing and he was going to use it! (Oh, that's a great plan) I suspected it was a billing company trying to survive by entering the EMR field and I guessed, and was right, it was the same outfit we had used for billing for many years. Way too little, way too late. When I called him out on it, ("Well I hope that's not Mr X at abc, because they have NO CLUE what they are doing") the look on his face (and the pale color) gave it all away. So I have had his attention since then, but he is afraid to take the plunge.
So yesterday I took the laptop to the hospital and went to medical records to get some help from the IT people to straighten out my passwords and access to the hospitals records. And my friend came in to sign some charts. I told him of a patient that I had just referred to him yesterday. He was delighted to hear of this good fortune and asked for the spelling of her name. I opened her chart, (the name is a little unusual). I showed him the note and referral. I FAXED THE NOTE, AND THE INSURANCE FACE SHEET AND THE CT SCAN REPORT DONE ELSEWHERE TO THE HOSPITAL MED RECORDS. I handed them to him. The face sheet has her PICTURE! He stood there thunderstruck as he held the documents. It was great!

What's fun is to do your hospital progress note on the hospital computer through Logmein, then print it out at the hospital to put in the chart. Everyone thinks the hospital is putting in a new program! Also printing out consultant note for them to use at the hospital impresses the partialists quite a lot.

To use logmein on hospital computer, is there any software installation involved? I don't think they'll allow it over here due to all the usual excuses...

can the note be printed at the hospital using the free version?

Logmein will install a small applet, but I also think there is one version which doesn't really install anything. The free version allows you to fax from your computer, but not print (which is how I send my notes to the hospital).

I use Logmein so much, I pay for it. I find it faster and easier to use than the server Remote Desktop. Plus the stock just went public!

Any security issues either way, log me on vs logged onto the server?

I periodically have problems with logmein at one hospital (where I work in ER but never admit) but never at the other (where I actually admit patients.)

It blows the staff away when I print out my H&P and discharge notes from the computer. They think I am the EHR guru. (If they only knew )

I have one computer set up just for outside access and have a paid logmein account so I can print.

I log in before I see the patient, complete half the note and then see the patient, complete any changes in the physical and complete the A&P.

The billing is done at the same time, so I don't need to complete a billing form.

This does not work for newborns, but regular admits are a breeze.