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Melanie,

Our office of 8 docs took the leap into AC last November (although one has been using e-clinical for several years and continues to do so) But I was the guinea pig and now 4 others have followed each of us in stages about one month apart. We have been able to problem solve within the office and this user board has been nothing short of a Godsend for me personally.
But I agree jumping into it is the best way, and I suspect within a week or two you will likely start to see how integrating AC into your practice will work for you.
I bought AC after about 2 weeks so I could start eprescribing right away, then got quest to download labs after a month or so then about 3 months integrated updox, and once i did the updox thing is when i could go paperless and my nurse became much more efficient and the scanning went to a minimum.
Then i started the patient portals through updox which has added something unique to my practice no one in the area is doing that I am aware of and patients love the ability to message and access us and their summaries, labs and xrays thru the portal.
I also took David's advice and would dictate my notes as initial entry a week before the visiti so when i saw a patient the PMH, meds, allergy, social and family hx and diagnosis codes and last vitals were entered--so i didn't have so much data entry at the time of visit and my office production did slow down for a month or two but not terribly.
hope this helps.

Jimmie,

Thanks for your advice and input! I think the way you went about it sounds great. I also would be the "guinea pig" for our office (3 docs and 1 P.A.)

For appointments, that is a great idea, to put all of the data in ahead of time. BUT, we also take walk-ins, which of course would have to be done on the fly...

Melanie

Melanie,

As you can tell from the experienced users' comments above, using any EMR begins to organize workflow in the office along the way the EMR functions, distributes and stores information. All of the EMRs available retrain your workflow, including AC. You have to begin to use it to understand how, even if only one patient a day at first.

The first thing you need is an Avatar. Wouldn't you agree, John?

OK, OK. I have one now, in honor of the super-cool solar eclipse I saw yesterday - it's what we saw out here in San Francisco!

M.

Very cool!

We had a big thick cloud obscuring the sun at 6:30 yesterday, but love your avatar!!!!!

We have fog so much of the time, but totally lucked out yesterday with an absolutely clear sky! It was beautiful...

and we usually have blue in this big sky country--funny

Awesome melanie.

Jimmie, is that a GREEN combine?

Leslie,

I don't know what the farmer's say back in the Hoosier State but here in the Golden Triangle of Montana there are two kind of farmers--the real ones and the "organic" farmers. The "organic" farmers are those that have been unable to succesfully manage their overhead costs and have migrated into letting the weeds grow with the wheat, but their production is usually nil even though their average sale price of wheat per bushel is higher.
So yes and no to your question--it is a lean green machine (John Deere) 36 foot canvas fed header that has all the computer gadgetry to make Sandeep, Bert, and JamesNT a little titillated--stuff on it to momitor yield on the fly, also mapping out where the weeds, wild oats and rye are located, percent protein, and farmer stuff I have no idea about.
So it runs on a farm anything but "organic", but is the best looking wheat in the part of the country where some of the best wheat is raised.

Very nice!