On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:31, Dr John Van Dyck wrote: > It was more a fun thing than a serious challenge. I firmly believe MD3 > would win hands down (or in my hands anyway :-))
Believe me - you don't stand a chance at all against me and my own program - but the point I was trying before is that different people have different workflows. I suppose nobody else would cope with my program for example as it is now, but I myself thrive. Imagine typing "dx phar<tab>" and a list selection appears with diagnoses starting with "pharyngitis" - within your progress notes!, without changing focus to a different place of your screen! Hit enter, and write "rx pnc<tab>" and it autocompletes to "Prescribed: Phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium 500mg 1 tablet 4 times daily for 7-10 days" Hit enter and write mc+3d<tab><enter> and it creates a medical certificate for the next three days. Now hit Ctrl+P and it prints both all accumulated scripts, the medical certificate, and whatever else has accumulated in the print queue for that patient. It prints immediately, no delay, no dialog boxes etc. because the print options are all pre-configured of course Two assumptions: 1.) it would be very, very hard to make anything more efficient. Maybe even impossible? 2.) most people won't like it at all, and never would remember most commands let alone bother learning them in the first place It follows again that different people with different preferences need different software. I don't believe there ever will be a single "suits all and everybody" software product for general practice unless it is so configurable that it will appear as dozens of different products to the end users after customization - but taking into account that probably a majority (?51%) will be reasonably happy with a standard configuration because they don't know better and can't be bothered to learn better either. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
