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When criticism of Catalis surfaced on this forum months ago it was suppressed. That information could have given real doctors in the real world pause to consider if this company had some life to it. When AC goes under a year from now, and the doctors who follow this forum are left holding the bag, will you feel any responsibility for that?
I anticipate your answer will be "No".
DrMurdoch: StLuke: Have you noticed that the armchair experts on EMRupdate have dropped pushing the Catalis scam? On to Amazing Charts! Until that fails for real doctors. No one here suggested Catalis was a good EMR. I think AC can work for select 1-2 doctor groups on the short term, especially if you want to keep paper charts like Jon the founder of AC does. StLuke:We have about 6 OB/GYNs now on eClinicalWorks, and they are very happy with it. eCW is a reasonable EMR despite it not working well for DrK/Lowell's solo practice. AC is not suitable for 6 OBs. AC is fine for certain solo docs. eCW isn't without it's detractors.
StLuke: Have you noticed that the armchair experts on EMRupdate have dropped pushing the Catalis scam? On to Amazing Charts! Until that fails for real doctors.
Have you noticed that the armchair experts on EMRupdate have dropped pushing the Catalis scam? On to Amazing Charts! Until that fails for real doctors.
No one here suggested Catalis was a good EMR.
I think AC can work for select 1-2 doctor groups on the short term, especially if you want to keep paper charts like Jon the founder of AC does.
StLuke:We have about 6 OB/GYNs now on eClinicalWorks, and they are very happy with it.
eCW is a reasonable EMR despite it not working well for DrK/Lowell's solo practice. AC is not suitable for 6 OBs. AC is fine for certain solo docs. eCW isn't without it's detractors.
Dr. Murdoch, perhaps you can name an EMR without any detractors?
I'm not sure where this thread is going. Catalis actually had some innovative features, and I am sorry to see Catalis wither away. Where was the scam part? I missed that.
We did have some interesting discussion a while back about trying to interface it with e-MDs PM side. What a nightmare that would be if they actually did it. I hope sanity prevailed.
Reddy
William "Reddy" Biggs, MD
Managing Partner, 23 physician Internal Medicine group
"Live on eClinicalWorks since 2/1/2007" http://tinyurl.com/reddybiggs
reddybiggs:I'm not sure where this thread is going. Catalis actually had some innovative features, and I am sorry to see Catalis wither away. Where was the scam part? I missed that.
I've not read any bad reports about Catalis Accelerator, just the company.
There was that bizarre posting from the guy who was doing some part time consulting on templates, and after everyone else left, he became CEO.
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gchiu: reddybiggs:I'm not sure where this thread is going. Catalis actually had some innovative features, and I am sorry to see Catalis wither away. Where was the scam part? I missed that. I've not read any bad reports about Catalis Accelerator, just the company. There was that bizarre posting from the guy who was doing some part time consulting on templates, and after everyone else left, he became CEO.
I had a demo from the prior CEO. Catalis was a very good product and seemingly made for a TabletPC. Lots of point and click templates and ability to ink or hand write.I can't believe it will simply vaporize. The web site is still up, even though my email this morning, returned with no recipient!
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digital-doc:I can't believe it will simply vaporize. The web site is still up, even though my email this morning, returned with no recipient!
I believe they had a lot of VC, which allowed them to build a decent product.
But if you price yourself inappropriately ( I'm guessing here ), you're not competitively placed, and the VC guys will pull the rug.
gchiu: digital-doc:I can't believe it will simply vaporize. The web site is still up, even though my email this morning, returned with no recipient! I believe they had a lot of VC, which allowed them to build a decent product. But if you price yourself inappropriately ( I'm guessing here ), you're not competitively placed, and the VC guys will pull the rug.
I'm guessing too, but I suggest your across the world perspective, is right on!
Is New Zealand taking November 4th refugees?
They still show as being in this office building in Austin...
Interestingly, the Google Maps Street View suggests they may have had a wreck in front of the building....
A bad omen perhaps.....
No thats there new bus stop because they don't pay their employees!
stoneconsulting:Randy Lipscher was a brillant visionary. He created Catalis- and brought this cutting edge concept to product and then market. There was never any product like this. Unfortuately he hired inferior people like Precious- what a joke. D. Stone
I remember seeing Catalis many years ago at the ACP conference. I was very impressed with the product's user interface. It looked just great, and seemed to work well. Of course, who knows how well something really works until you've suffered with it for a month...
I wonder if this wasn't just several years too early for its time. Javascript and javascript programs have come leaps and bounds in the meantime. Web-based EMRs are now almost too common, but a locally-served, web-based EMR still sounds like the platform of the next generation.
Alas, all EMRs are still limited by the issues of poor interoperability and yet poorly implemented standards. To paraphrase the mediocre President Harding: "There are a lot of geniuses driving taxis". Whether by bad luck, poor timing, or any number of other reasons, Catalis seems to have disappeared.
Only seems to have:
http://www.healthtec-software.com/Fusion-30-sec.htm
http://www.codebluesolutions.com/
I checked out the links and found the system very interesting. I think the use of graphics as an intrinsic part of the note would be great for a specialty like mine (rheumatology) where mapping joint counts is so important. I wish more systems would offer this instead of long and clumsy tables of joints. I hope they make a go of it.
I created a homunculus for Synapse with clickable joints to automate the DAS28, but find it's just easier to count the involved joints.
T2T as they say.