does anyone else here think it’s annoying that we are stuck signing faxes in the year 2015? I’ve thought long about this as I think the thing that I spend most time doing (second to seeing patients and finishing their notes) is go through the stuff in my D-bubble.
A percentage I can just click reviewed (eg, specialist reports, FYI stuff from nursing homes, hospital face sheets and discharge summaries). PT forms need to be opened and signed. Nursing home orders, or more accurately, the written version of order I already verbally gave them need signatures. I work from home and at the office and am rarely able to easily get to a machine that I can sign on (we have moved away from tablets due to cost).
Anyway, I am also mad that ECW utilizes MODI (yes, that MODI from 2003) as one of the 2 fax editors in the EMR. It has little built in, in terms of features. Ink Edit is hardly better and seems to run even slower. So, using a programming language called Autohotkeys (which is free, by the way), I developed a macro that I could fire off to basically stamp documents needing signatures.
It didn’t take that long to make, and works really well for me and my partners and I totally don’t know if anyone else would find such a hack useful. But, I am just so frustrated that this EMR uses such an antiquated work process, I felt it was time to think outside the box and share my findings. Maybe they’ll do something about it some day, but suggestion box suggestions have not yet come to fruition for me (I’m a user since 2009).
Anyway, here’s a quick video. I think we shouldn’t have to look so hard for tricks on making a product work, IMHO.
http://youtu.be/HJauq-WfGu8