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If many vendors or organizations were to offer free full scope EMR online, and the EMR systems were very similar in function, security and ease of use, which vendor's system would you choose? Please select your favorite.
#Response DateOther (please specify)
1.11/12/2007 7:52:00 PMProvincial Health Care System
2.11/12/2007 8:57:00 PMI'd need to compare
3.11/14/2007 1:41:00 PMstay with ours
4.11/14/2007 8:49:00 PMThe various States professional Medical societies.They represent all the specialties and are closest to the Patient-Physician relationship. They are non commercial,not for profit and have professional ethics to live up to.
5.11/15/2007 4:29:00 PMcommercial, but government sanctioned and approved
6.11/15/2007 11:45:00 PMi do not know
7.11/16/2007 4:18:00 AMno experience
8.11/16/2007 5:41:00 PMThe best one.
9.11/17/2007 2:46:00 AMno clue.
10.11/19/2007 2:36:00 PMI do not know enough about health vault
11.11/19/2007 2:44:00 PMmy own
12.11/19/2007 7:01:00 PMspecific pediatric program
13.11/19/2007 8:11:00 PMDon't know, need to research options.
14.11/19/2007 10:40:00 PMInsufficient information to judge
15.11/20/2007 5:36:00 AMBritish Columbia Government Medical Service Plan or Vancouver Island Health Authority
16.11/22/2007 4:03:00 PMWould check them all out
17.11/22/2007 4:55:00 PMgreenfield
18.11/22/2007 5:11:00 PMdon't know
19.11/22/2007 5:16:00 PMWe prefer a paper office
20.11/22/2007 5:40:00 PMnone of the above
21.11/22/2007 5:48:00 PMI can't say at this time.
22.11/22/2007 6:14:00 PMI don't know
23.11/22/2007 6:28:00 PMNone of them. I feel that vendors should focus on &quot;front ends&quot;--i.e. the browsers accessing and displaying the data, but that there should be a single-source/single-structure to the back end database. Too much money is spent maintaining disparate systems, and the future of medicine is the use of aggregate de-identified patient data as the evidence-base for quality improvement. The question is, who will be the trustee of the data ?
24.11/22/2007 6:37:00 PMcan not say
25.11/22/2007 6:50:00 PMwould need to judge which system is the best.
26.11/22/2007 6:59:00 PMI would chose Microsoft based onpast experience but I would need to actually look at the features on the different systems. I have reviewed many different systems and in general, I do not think they are oriented to what would work best for the provider but rather what allow the system to decrease its costs by download work ontothe physicians. I have viewed some that have been created by physicians that do take into account how to allow physicins tio spend their time seeing patient and minimize their time in charting and contacting the patients with results.
27.11/22/2007 7:15:00 PMI'd evaluate the functionality of each and decide
28.11/22/2007 7:23:00 PMunsure
29.11/22/2007 7:44:00 PMDon't know
30.11/22/2007 8:38:00 PMCarecast Currently
31.11/22/2007 8:40:00 PMWhichever system were able to integrate as a truly patient focused utility, i.e. contained both inpatient and ambulatory information. I.E. would have to be adopted by my hospital as its patient record/workflow/pharmacy engine.
32.11/22/2007 8:56:00 PMdo not know enough about EMR
33.11/22/2007 9:02:00 PMnot enough information to answer this question...would need to research companies and products
34.11/22/2007 9:36:00 PMprivate corporations / EMR programs
35.11/22/2007 9:45:00 PMcheerios
36.11/22/2007 10:01:00 PMI will participate in online EMR if it is Doctor-centric but not patientcentric
37.11/22/2007 10:56:00 PMCentricity
38.11/22/2007 11:08:00 PMOwn proprietary system
39.11/22/2007 11:09:00 PMnational members only medical organization like AACE
40.11/22/2007 11:10:00 PMathenahealth
41.11/22/2007 11:37:00 PMNo such beast exists. I currently have used several and they are all deficient
42.11/22/2007 11:56:00 PMpractice partner
43.11/23/2007 12:10:00 AMState Medical Society
44.11/23/2007 12:24:00 AMNone of the above
45.11/23/2007 12:29:00 AMEverybody has their strengths and weaknesses. I couldn't pick a vendor without suffcient information; though I doubt that I would pick the government, health insurance company nor the pharmaceuticla company.
46.11/23/2007 12:42:00 AMwellneess360.com (flexscan)
47.11/23/2007 12:48:00 AMMaker of Crib Notes
48.11/23/2007 12:48:00 AMDepends on the specifics of each system
49.11/23/2007 12:49:00 AMA physician controlled and operated system perhaps under a national MD organization.
50.11/23/2007 1:04:00 AMnone unless like now I am forced to use the EMR
51.11/23/2007 1:15:00 AMMany of these are reputable. It would depend on ease of use and transferrability of care issues
52.11/23/2007 2:09:00 AMDon't know
53.11/23/2007 2:15:00 AMhave Practice Solutions a Canadian provider
54.11/23/2007 2:16:00 AMNot enough experience with any of the these, outsourcing billing
55.11/23/2007 3:29:00 AMI cannot select one at this time.
56.11/23/2007 3:40:00 AMNo idea, sorry.
57.11/23/2007 6:32:00 AMalready use allscripts touchworks
58.11/23/2007 7:15:00 AMApple
59.11/23/2007 1:16:00 PMDigiChart is endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
60.11/23/2007 2:04:00 PMdon't know
61.11/23/2007 2:05:00 PMCerner
62.11/23/2007 2:11:00 PMNOT Google, Yahoo, pharma.
63.11/23/2007 2:15:00 PMNone of the above. It needs to be a non-for-profit company, with no insurance or government affiliations, if at all.
64.11/23/2007 2:20:00 PMvirus issues with PC's are a concern; what are you doing regarding computer viral issues?
65.11/23/2007 2:30:00 PMnot sure
66.11/23/2007 2:58:00 PMcanadian (Quebec) government
67.11/23/2007 3:07:00 PMneed to do more research
68.11/23/2007 3:31:00 PMepocrates
69.11/23/2007 3:57:00 PMState government, because I work at a state medical center
70.11/23/2007 3:57:00 PMNone, for the reasons already stated.
71.11/23/2007 4:18:00 PMepic
72.11/23/2007 4:27:00 PMnot sure
73.11/23/2007 4:56:00 PMneed to compare
74.11/23/2007 4:56:00 PMnot sure
75.11/23/2007 5:01:00 PMWould need to evaluate each system against requirements to determine the best match
76.11/23/2007 6:00:00 PMPartners
77.11/23/2007 6:59:00 PMI would need more information to sort between these at this point; there are a few I would definitely NOT select, but then several that I have no reasonable way to sort between....
78.11/23/2007 7:24:00 PMI would hope we would have a nationwide universal system, otherwise it would not be as useful
79.11/23/2007 7:30:00 PMWould not comit until had a chance of comparison shopping.
80.11/23/2007 7:36:00 PMno opinion at this time.
81.11/23/2007 8:02:00 PMAvaility
82.11/23/2007 8:56:00 PMVA system is great!
83.11/23/2007 9:05:00 PMApple
84.11/23/2007 9:19:00 PMUNCERTAIN
85.11/23/2007 9:55:00 PMdon't know enough to answer
86.11/23/2007 10:43:00 PMSemiens
87.11/24/2007 12:15:00 AMWhichever was best. That is, organized for the physician to easily access the important information.
88.11/24/2007 12:24:00 AMmisys
89.11/24/2007 6:58:00 AMDIFFICULT QUESTION. NO ADS. NO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. NO INSURANCE CARRIERS. NO GOVERNMENT. NO HMOS. PERHAPS AMA SPONSORED. OR ABMS SPONSORED. PERHAPS MAYO CLINIC, HARVARD, STANFORD, UCLA,
90.11/24/2007 12:36:00 PMnone
91.11/24/2007 3:20:00 PMnone
92.11/24/2007 3:35:00 PMNot any corporation or entity that is not entirely and uniquely focused on an EMR. Multi-tasking companies can't do this, since if the EMR does not drop profit to the bottom line who is going to assure that the system will be around forever. Government systems are very slow, costly, full of mistakes, already funded by us and awful already, why should we pay for more slowness. Go look at Epic.
93.11/24/2007 5:09:00 PMpatient's choice
94.11/24/2007 5:51:00 PMIt is the choice of the healthcare system.
95.11/24/2007 7:12:00 PM?
96.11/25/2007 2:53:00 AMLet's keep our democracy.
97.11/25/2007 4:00:00 AMother
98.11/25/2007 4:33:00 PMOntario Medical Association
99.11/26/2007 1:59:00 AMnot my choice
100.11/26/2007 2:04:00 AMA separate Not for Profit with a board made up of major stakeholders
101.11/26/2007 3:03:00 AMare you nuts? The incentives to hack the system to breach privacy are too great. Think Hilary Clinton's stealing FBI files on her &quot;enemies&quot;
102.11/26/2007 11:04:00 AMi would continue to use our institutionally endorsed system
103.11/26/2007 12:25:00 PMnone
104.11/26/2007 5:38:00 PMHave not adequately researched all options!
105.11/26/2007 11:55:00 PMIn general, I would trust government systems to not be biased, but would trust commercial systems to be more efficient.
106.11/27/2007 12:57:00 AMI don't know enough to say
107.11/27/2007 3:55:00 AMNot sure now but it would NOT be a pharm company nor a health insurance company
108.11/27/2007 10:31:00 AMcommited to adopt nestgen
109.11/27/2007 1:06:00 PMdo not have enough knowledge of other systems
110.11/27/2007 8:20:00 PMWOULD NEED TO REVIEW
111.11/28/2007 12:41:00 AMunknown. I am not familiar with all the above types
112.11/28/2007 2:55:00 PMMy organization
113.11/28/2007 3:43:00 PMprivate one
114.11/29/2007 5:24:00 AMnon-commercial -government or non profit health system
115.11/29/2007 9:17:00 PMA system that has wide, local acceptance
116.11/30/2007 1:51:00 PMiMedica or Praxis
117.12/2/2007 11:54:00 AMHAVE NEXTGEN