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How about the HL7 data bridge between AC-TotalMD. Have you deployed that?


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No, and I don't have any plans to do that Gianni.

We are very happy with keeping our ehr and pm separate. If I could be granted a wish, it would be to have a version of AC that didn't require spending the time coding the visit to save and close it. That is not what I want to be doing in the last few moments with the patient, so I have to do it later even though it is wasted time for me and meaningless for our non-connected PM. I remember the days of superbills fondly.

I really like having a piece of paper with all the insurance details, the patient's signature to them being correct, a place to quickly write any unusual charges or requests for the staff, practice specific boxes to check for the usual charges and diagnoses, and my real signature. An image of that is valuable to me. And it only takes me seconds to do it all with real chicken scratching.

Currently, I use a program for coding that is tailor made for our needs and has some other bells and whistles, but a superbill is even faster than that as far as my time outlay. Turning doctors into clerks and scribes is not the best use of our time. Eventually, I suppose it could make our offices more profitable by cutting staff expenses, but everyone seems to be in the ugly duckling stage where the doctor is doing more, but staff can't be cut yet.



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Hi Dan,

"Currently, I use a program for coding that is tailor made for our needs and has some other bells and whistles"

I am curious as to what program you are referring to above and how and what exactly does it do?? I am thinking can that program possibly help my practice.

Presently I choose the diagnosis codes in Amazing Charts before I sign off and the office manager manually puts those codes in Medware and files them electronically. I know it is duplication with putting in demographics etc.. in both AC and Medware, but it seems to be doable so far.

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Sorry Raj,

couldn't post for a few days of purgatory.

I wrote a program to coordinate the front and back office which includes this and that. If it wasn't for the other things I would definitely recommend using a "superbill" paper for recording the charges and telling the front about when to bring them back. Delegate, delegate, delegate.



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