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#8239 05/30/2008 7:52 AM
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Does anyone have experience with Instant Medical History? I am particularly interested in the ability of patients to fill out patient info prior to their initial visit. We presently have new patients go to our web site, print the patient info form, fill it out, and bring it on their 1st visit. Then it is entered in AC, then forwarded to my MA, then forwarded to me. IMH could potentially save several of these steps. Thanks.

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WE hope to use it, but are realistically a year away from that level of organization. What I have seen at conferences makes IMH very attractive, because it is using a powerful algorithm that expands the history ONLY AS NEEDED to capture much more information than any of our conventional forms do. And it presents the physician with only the pertinent data, so it wastes no time when you read it.


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Ron,

Welcome to AC. As many have said on here before. Here is is in a nutshell.

Greatest idea for a program. Worst performance as a program ever. Very scary to have a program which costs $100 more annually than the program you are using it for. And, it is basically non-customizable. Well, maybe it is if you have a doctorate in engineering, computer programming, statistics, medicine, pharmacy and education.


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Hey I just had a fabulous Idea! Instead of needing more and more expensive toys to allow you guys to see more patients, in less time, "more efficently", How about America finally "bellies up to the table" and comes to understand that really good quality of medical care, from highly educated, well trained, caring and compassionate people actually is going to cost a decent amount of cash? Imagine that?

Therefore you could all slow down, have a nice long chat with each of your patients, have the time to document all that you have learned from these "conversations" and so you could actually get to the bottom of their issues and all that really important secondary stuff.

It's simply amazing what happens when Nancy actually has real, normal human conversations with her patients, she gets all this real good information out of them...

But why bother to do that, let's have the "free market" design expensive programs that we won't assist doctors in purchasing, we'll just mandate it upon them instead, so the free market can have more of those doctors money while they continue to chase their own tails earning less and less each day. And then we'll complain about where has the quality of care gone and impose upon them reporting standards to meet, just to get paid, almost what they used to get paid before such insane policies.

Stopping and talking to all your patients, we wouldn't want to pay you to actually do any of that now would we???

It's Simply Amazing whistle


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Dead on, Paul.


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