For lack of any other better way to describe this post...Did you know?
The annual meeting is taking place in Chicago starting tomorrow and on the web site EMR update is listed as one of the refernces used to help physicians in selecting an EHR...hats off to everyone here on the forum...below is a quick copy and paste from the site. I also have noticed an increase in EHR vendor participatiion in many of the specialized annual meetings of late as well.
http://www.asco.org/ASCO/Practice+Resources/Electronic+Health+Records/Evaluating+and+Selecting+EHRs
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Must have been Al. He is the only oncologist who is known to frequently visit here.
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That is really cool, Barbara! I think that our occasional discussions on oncology have probably trickled to other oncologists, hurting from the Medicare cutbacks. They want EMR, but can't afford the current price- i.e. licenses costing upwards of $100000.00. David Winn MD of e-MDs is thinking of adding on an oncology module onto the medium priced e-MDs eventually, which should change the panorama for the oncology software market.
My MS Office based software continues to run my oncology office well, calculating my chemotherapy doses going back to about 1992. Cost: the cost of the MS Office software upgrades. Life is sweet!
My next project might be to port my oncology program onto MS Word and sell it for the typical cost of shareware. I pretty much finished the MS Word EMR Project, including its manual last night (sans oncology). I'm now just stamping out some last minute bugs. I could add on the oncology portion if there is enough interest into the next version. Version 5 of the MS Word EMR Project pretty much already does the most important things- about 20 different notes, prescriptions, and scheduling. It's taken a while to finish since it is kind of difficult to program (the VBA of Word is similar to that of MS Access but the platform is unyeilding).
The idea is to be able to use my MS Access program (or any other MS Office program for that matter) off of a thumb drive on any computer with MS Word installed. Most hospital computers have at least that; the 2 hospitals that I go to have MS Access/full MS Office 2003 in about 90% of computer nodes. Up to now I still mostly use my MS Access EMR program right off of my thumb drive because of this.
Al Borges, M.D.
● Oncologist in a Small Group Practice in Virginia
● My website URL: http://msofficeemrproject.com/
Thanks Al, what is really of value are the many visitors we have on the site, looking for information. At any given time the number of visitors will far outnumber the membership online, so there are many here looking for resource material in reference to medical records. When I think back myself, I hung out for a bit before joining and becoming an active part of the process.
The second good part of this is the membership that takes the time to add their comments and material to help answer questions and simply voice their opinions, and that's what makes EMR Update go around. The conference by the way begins tomorrow in Chicago, so I'm sure there will be announcements to follow. Nice that EMR Update has been accredited as a valuable resource to help offer information and assistance in the pursuit of an EHR/EMR.