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Looking for any any advice and tips on starting out with this system. We are a solo allergy/asthma practice in Bowling Green, KY and I would love to speak with any other solo allergists and or anyone with any advice on starting out and setting up this system.

Hey man welcome to Amazing charts. I have to tell you look under the tricks and tips disccusion forum. It will give you a lot of different tips. I have been using amazing charts for 15 months and I just learned a bunch of new things.

While you are using it, play with it and when you have issues, I would look for answers here first. The support sometimes takes a long time to get back to you. Search for posts or post your questions. People are very friendly here.

I'd suggest you play with it for a week or so on dummy patients (plan on maybe 20 hours of play time). You can ask AC for an online demo session that took a couple of hours for us. It was helpful after we knew the basic stuff and had started formulating questions. We were surprised that our questions at that point were more sophisticated than we anticipated, and that we already had figured out the big stuff. Then import your patient database, and start using it but print everything and put in paper charts (that way if you REALLY mess up you can just re-import and no harm done). Do that for 1-2 weeks. Then go live.

Lots of differing opinions as to how to start. Some suggest just starting with the basic Hx/Px entry, and keep paper for orders and prescriptions, etc. for some time. Some of us "went all the way" from the get-go. Many people scan in and import their entire old chart. Some of us leave the old chart on the shelf and import only new items. Most of us seem to use some electronic faxing system, and some of use UpDox as a patient portal/fax system. The list goes on.

We are a 4 provider office, and found that the workload for the entire office changed greatly, and that this was a huge part of the changeover effort. We found it it NOT just the electronic equivalent of paper, but an entire new way of looking at documentation. Everyone in the office had to re-learn their job.

There are allergists on this site, and there have been postings on how to import an allergy testing sheet and other specific tasks. You can search for "allergy".

The permutations and combinations of things to have to learn and solve can get pretty large, and it will may a bit overwhelming at first. It will fall into place. Cut yourself some slack in the process. As my partner says "You can read about playing hockey for years, but the only way you learn how to play is to get out on the ice and accept that you will play badly for some time."

I agree with David. My situation was very different. I had left an ortho group to start my own sports medicine clinic, so I technically didn't have any charts or patients. I didn't steal the charts from the old office. I just started new.

So from day one i used the whole thing. I didn't see a point to start half and half. If you are at all computer literate (not even computer savvy), you will do just fine with it. It is the little thingsy ou will have a lot of questions about and will have to play with and use. That is where the help will come in.

But you can't know what you need help on till you play with it and use it daily. That will help you.

I didn't feel like playing with dummy patients really helped me but I am very impatient so I didn't learn new things till I actually had a patient with a certain scenario.