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Anybody using Instant Medical History??
How is it working for you??
Do you give patients the web site or do you put a pc in waiting room?

Thanksl

Thought I'd bump this thread. Is anyone using IMH? We are currently experimenting with it. We'll try a couple of live patients in the office this week with the laptop.

Joseph2, did it work out ok for you?

Greetings:

I have not used IMH. Probably should. I got busy with other things.

Regards.

I am using IMH.

If properly used, it must be an amazing inteface.

It also supports Spanish history.

I set it up, but still none of my patients have used this yet.

But I will instuct patients to use this. I actually offer 5% discount for physician fee if patient use online appointment and IMH. But not realistic yet in my office.

I will try to bump up online + IMH rate greater than 50% of visits.

I had some problems with IMH.

Admittedly, I used it in an unorthodox fashion (I tried having the nurse use it to take history).

Still, I could never get the right balance of questions; either it asked too few or too many. I had a hard time customizing the questions, and I am not computer-illiterate.

I am also sorry to say that the tablet we were using it on to take history kept crashing, and this stopped after we uninstalled IMH.

Furthermore, when we would import the IMH history, there was always an invisible extra blank line at the end of the imported data. If you didn't manually delete it, it would make your notes look funny.

It wasn't worth $50 per month to me.

I think there is room on the market for a better version of IMH.

Brian, you are definitely using it fine by having your nurse use it. For me, it has much more benefit for asking HPI questions for illnesses which need certain questions asked, i.e. chronic abdominal pain in eight-year-olds has to have a headache question or you will not think of abdominal migraines.

There is SOOOO much room for improvement. Sorry, this is my opinion only, but it is designed horribly. Customization is nearly impossible. I would find it better if it were blank right out of the box. That's what I pretty much did with AC. I deleted all templates and started fresh.

And, $50.00 per month. Please! How about $89.00 to buy the program? Sorry, just my opinion.

I am considering cancelling monthly subscription for IMH.

Still I do not use it paying monthly payment only.

I think it still is virtually useless, and interface is very tricky and difficult.

My opinion.

Alan Kim, MD

Re: Discounts towards fee

Somewhere I heard when we accept insurances, we are not allowed to offer discounts as patients may overutilize and boost up insurance/Government expenses.

Need clarifications please.

Joe,
Yes this is basically true. We are shorthanded and so I can't write a lot today. Why don't you take this discount thought to another thread of its own and we can certainly have at it over the next couple of days.

But the short brief answer is "Yes". Do NOT offer any discounts. I will explain how it was all taught to me sometime soon... OK? Be well.

Paul