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How will this Forum be different from the Problem & Wish List Forums?

Is it for short term problems or long range planning for AC?

Greg

We will not be monitoring the Problem and Wish Forums. Posts here, if felt to be appropriate, will be taken back to Amazing Charts management where they will be discussed.

I'm very glad to hear about the formation of the Advisory Board. I think it's an excellent idea and a welcome development. Thanks to the "Nine Worthies" for your service to all of us in the AC community.

John



(13th century carving: "Nine Good Heroes" or the "Nine Worthies," City Hall, Cologne, Germany.)

I think the members of the Clinical Advisory Board are excellent choices. But my question is, why do AC managers need another layer?

Is it too hard for a company rep browse this Board, both to pick up the predominate concerns of their admittedly most vocal customers, and ask for clarification? Other companies both large (Microsoft) and small (Amped Wireless) are active on their user boards.

Feel free to take my first comment here back to AC for their edification: What am I, chopped liver?

Bert, does this mean that the Problems and Wish List forums are obsolete? Sounds like it.

@J. Howland, Thanks.

@John I think you are comparing apples and oranges. First, you list two companies that monitor their board. I would say that many, many others don't. And, with the larger companies, users are not going to have any type of relationship with those people from the company if they even post at all. I'm not saying this will be perfect. It may not work at all. But, for 10 years I have been posting on this board asking AC to do this or that. I don't think one of those this or thats have ever been done or even acknowledge by AC. This is a step in the right direction.

@Wayne I really do not think this is going to change the way people post. To come clean, I have only posted in General Discussion my entire existence on the board. I still think most of us with questions, answers, complaints, rants, etc. will post elsewhere. This is basically if you want a certain topic to be heard at the meeting. John, I think you are one who wanted closed folders (which there are now). I believe you and Jon posted at least 30 times each on that. When did that get fixed. To know that one post on it may get it in front of Kathleen or Mr. Squire I would think would be helpful. It's hard to imagine those two stating "Well that's a stupid idea."

As to another layer, here is why. If you brought up the closed folders, is tech support whose only role on the board is to answer questions going to take that back to AC. Is Charlie going to even know what that is. But, I am sure one of the nine will see it, relate to it, and bring it up.

I am not completely sure how this will work either. If there is even one suggestion a day, that would be 30 to talk about. But, that, I think, is where Wendell or Steven or Jon will be able to edit some of the comments.

Bert, I am hopeful that you are right. AC is in dire need of distinguishing itself in some area, and responsiveness to customer concerns would be a great way to start.

Agreed. You did figure out the closed folders, correct?

Frankly, I don't use the folder option much. From Windows 95 on, I've been used to folders that stay open and closed individually. To have all the folders either open or closed en masse in a patient's Imported Items is not saving me any scroll or click time. "A-" for effort (took too long), "D" for implementation.

John H,

How did you manage to past a picture (nine worthies) into the dialogue box?

What type of file was it, and how did you actually paste it?

Bruce Morgenstern, MD (Neurology)
Denver CO

If you right click on it and select "View Image Info" it gives you some of that info.

Bruce,
Go to the web page and find the image you want to insert in your post.
Right click on the picture, and click on "copy image URL".
Be sure to use the "full reply page" in the AC box for a post.
Select the "image" icon (the fourth icon from the left above the box).
Choose the format for the image (e.g. "Insert a non-floating image") and paste in the URL.

Thanks, Jon,

But what about if we have a specific JPEG image already existing on our computer that we would like to past? Can that be done? (and how?)

Bruce
Denver, CO

Or use the fifth image to the right in the toolbar.
It has a blue up arrow.
Then follow the directions that appear.

Yes, definitely much easier. Thanks.

Dear Clinical Advisory Board,

With a bit or tinkering, I've slightly redesigned the user interface for "Most Recent Encounter" which now incorporates both an Active Problem List as well as an Interventions Field:




In this screen shot version of Amazing Charts, I've attempted to incorporate the two new and much needed fields into the Most Recent Encounters screen: Active Problem List field and Interventions field. (I garnered the extra screen real estate by shrinking some of the grey areas and also slightly shrinking some of the icon buttons.)

Once these new fields were incorporated into the screen, it became logical to group together on opposite sides of the chart those fields which had relatively constant patient clinical information (left side) and those fields which would be more relevant to each individual encounter (right side) . Hence Active Problem List, Inactive Problem List/PMHx, ROS, Interventions, FH,x SHx, and Present Medications are all grouped together on the left, while Chief Complaint, HPI Examination Diagnosis Assessment and Plan (relevant to each individual encounter) are grouped together on the right. (also please not the improved and clearer "allergies" on the left side




This second screen shot shows the new Most Recent Encounters screen now with the "Look Up ICD9" button activated. Note the appearance of two new buttons - one which allows "Annotations" to be added to the ICD code/ description, and a second button that would automatically place the new annotated ICD diagnosis both in the new left sided "Active Problem List" as well as in the (right side) Assessment field.

I hope the User Board would consider these changes, make suggestions, and possibly review them with the AC design staff. Please feel free to contact me with any questions

Bruce Morgenstern, MD (Neurology)
Denver CO

Bruce's suggested redesign of the encounter note window has been posted for over a month now (I am posting here, since that topic is locked). No responses yet. Was this area supposed to work differently from the other board areas (i.e.: action or response within a certain timeframe?)

I'm not lodging a complaint, just trying to figure out how this is going to work, since Bruce's post is the first detailed suggestion to the CAB.

It is simple. We were not able to get to this board at the last meeting and, as you said, there was only one.

The intention is for all posts to get looked at. The suggestion is locked as it isn't the intention for every suggestion to be talked about incessantly so that there are five ideas with 12 additional posts making it unwieldy.

To use the now infamous suggestion about II, the suggestion, "I think the folders should be open is enough to encourage discussion. It isn't discussion so much by the CAB as the users can discuss on the board. It is to get the idea to the very top.

This isn't perfect. It hasn't been done before. The administration brought it up. Who knows? May not work.

At least it provides one more thing for users to complain about.