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Hi,
I am just now reviewing version5.0 (beta) of AC in hope of using it in my solo practice in a satelite office at home (no staff). There is a pull down menu when you first install AC asking for your specialty. The closest for me would be "alternative". I practice mostly osteopathic manipulation and alternative therapeutics,mostly homeopathic. I am licensed as both in CT. Despite this menu choice of specialty I don't see any indication that AC is a goodmatch for an alternative physician. Two things I can see off the bat that I would change:

The chart uses templates for each section - HPI, ROS, FH, etc. So each section of the chart should be in its own light pastel color. The corresponding templates for that section of the chart should be the same color so you can quickly find the template you want from your list of many templates.

There is a list of medications. It doesn't have any homeopathic drugs even though they have been regulated by the FDA since 1938! - but that's another story. Anyway,you don't have a separate template for each medication, you have a medication list you can call up. So, if I use mostly osteopathic treatments as my main treatment, why can't I create a list of treatments -just like there is a list of drugs? The osteopathic treatments are my "drugs", yet I have to create a template for each "drug"that I use! There should be a way to create a master "treatment" list that I can pull from.

I understand that AC emulates the way most FPs work, however, if it is to be presented to a market that includes professionals on that pull-down list of specialties it must be flexibile. I would also like to see a master template for osteopathic diagnoses, by spinal segment and cranial and coccygeal sections as well. Then I could call up that master template and highlight my findings (which change from patient to patient). So there should be a way to create these master templates, call them up and then click and paste only the needed parts from the list. This would work for physican acupuncturists as well if they could have a master template that contained all the meridians and acupuncture points.

I haven't found a work-around for the drug list yet but I would really like to see the ability to make a treatment list.

Hi Dom,

We have talked a little before, but I can add a few comments. They may not make sense, because I am not completely sure I understand your questions.

As to the pastels and picking out templates, how are you going to your template list? I ask this, because when you right click in any field, only the templates that correspond to that field will show up. So, there would be no reason to color code them.

As to the templates for diagnosis, it would seem like in the Physical section you could type all the info you want for a certain section or subsection of spinal segments. You could save all your templates with the Alt + Right click feature. You could even make a fake template that you do in all caps to separate the sections. You could have templates that put in exactly what you noted on exam or you could have one template with a [Y] [N] by it and double-click delete the one that is not there.

As to the medications, I will need to think on that.

Bert,

Thanks. I understand your answer about the colors - I am not familiar enough with the program yet so my suggestion didn't make sense. I would really love a template for osteo treatment, ROS, Physical exam, etc that would allow one to check boxes for + and the rest would just not be copied to the chart. I'll keep working on my templates.
Dom

I agree about the "master treatment list." It would be great to have the ability to quickly access your favorite scripts, even medications that are alternative/supplements. For example, in neurology we sometimes use butterbur or riboflavin for migraine.

I would love to see a master treatment list,

I t would save so much time to pull up my most frequently wriiten scripts.