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What has your experience been using current psychiatric electronic medical records? What works, what doesn’t? What would be an “ideal wish-list” of feature sets for a stand-alone Psychiatric EHR/EMR?I am a psychiatrist in private practice and have been looking at the current options available for EMR/EHR. Most programs are full software suites focused on general medicine with good practice management/billing options, but the psychiatric EHR portion is merely added on as an after thought (for instance, rudimentary word document templates, etc) and do not address the needs for specialty EHR/workflow of a psychiatric medical record.I am evaluating the need to develop a stand alone web based psychiatric EHR, focused primarily on psychiatric/behavioral health medical records without the extra bells and whistles for extensive practice management add-ons. (One other reason for honing in on the medical record aspect is that most private practice offices are leery to give up their practice management software which keeps the billing/revenue generating stream up and running, and hence end up compromising on hanging on to the watered down medical record portion that is tacked on to it). The purpose is not to reinvent the wheel, but rather, focus on a core product that does what it needs to do well, instead of trying to be the jack of all trades. As a disclaimer, I will also be posting this in other forums (AATP, Sermo, Medscape, etc) for maximum feedback from colleagues, so advance apologies if this is against any cross-posting rules.Thank you in advance for your feedback.