![]() I had just kept moving forward with working with the system. I moved to a doctor's office 4 months ago who had just started using this system in their office so I was well aware of the software so I didn't need ask any questions. I was able to teach others how to do so as well. I was able to chart what I needed for my patients very easily. Growing up in the technology age, transferring to electronic charts was not a huge change for me. We were given serious notice in advance when we were transferring from paper charts to electronic charts. I've been using Epic Care EMR for 8 years at my place of employment. Unfortunately because epic has a monopoly and because hospital administrators who don’t have to use this make all the decisions, they chose this software because it maximizes billing. Your phone constantly goes off in the middle of the night with critical alerts even though a nocturnist is in the hospital and can actually address these issues. The inbasket is horrible to use because you can’t include your nurse or scheduler on the same message as your pt and because it’s flooded with messages. ![]() I mean there is no way for a human to distinguish the important stuff from the noise. There are hundreds of canceled orders that aren’t really canceled. You can be in the middle of an order and an alert pops up. There are alerts that go off constantly, many of which are incorrect. The problem list takes forever to clean up. The training was poor so most people don’t know how to use it so you have to change everything. Many of the treatment plans were incorrect so you have to place a ticket for everything. There is no quality control with the rollout. Because orders were built incorrectly, a pharmacist could change an order of mine without my cosignature and it was an erroneous change that could have resulted in a patient death. The implementation of this software at our hospital was a disaster. PROSĬare everywhere helps with looking at info from other institutions CONS
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