I wouldnt be so sure....I dont have to type anything to achieve those progress notes, just one mouse click on "pharyngitis" will do (if I have set up the shortcut like you in advance) etc etc
Hopefully then you can whip up a TCA or GPMP or medication review while you are talking with the patient etc etc We both see similar numbers at the surgery dont forget. But look, I agree it would not be a contest between software as much as between how efficiently the users of that software have adapted their workflow and practices to suit in a real situation. I wasnt envisaging a showdown apart from real practice. Give you and I 15 minutes in which to produce the desired paper output as well as actually seeing he patient and getting the job done and I might just win :-) I know one thing you would not beat me on and that is if we swapped software and tried it. Then we would both lose :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horst Herb Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:09 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Picking another package other than MD2 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 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
