Would recommend this product
March 02, 2015
Would recommend this product
Software Version
v14.2
Overall Satisfaction with Allscripts Professional EHR
We use Allscripts Professional EHR in a seven provider pain management practice. We implemented this product in 2008. I do not have experience with another EHR product but train all new employees on this. I've been told by the new employees that this system is intuitive and I find it fairly easy to train people with it. All departments use this product (doctors, mid-levels, clinical staff, lab, front office, billing, pre-cert). We are able to document/manage office visits, phone calls, medication refills and referrals.
- Intuitive with documenting office visits
- Easy to navigate around the screens when researching patient information
- Able to customize lots of things throughout the program to work with requested workflows
- Documenting lab or imaging results are clunky. Without an interface, we scan in labs and imaging. There is a small, unobvious place to make a note in response to the results but then another patient message needs to be sent to the nursing staff explaining these results again with instructions on what to tell the patient.
- You cannot build a chart the day before or print out any paperwork (i.e. consents for procedures) until the day of the appointment or it gets dated for the date you opened the chart, not the actual date of encounter
- While there are so many things you can customize, it gets burdensome at times. You really need to have a superuser on staff to remember how everything gets customized. The customization is not intuitive.
- We were able to eliminate our medical records person once most of the scanning was completed. Now when a patient asks for their medical records, it's easy for anyone to print it out right away. Our transcriptionist position was eliminated too.
- Our documentation of medication refills is much more streamlined. Our clinical department no longer has one person assigned to address refills all day. We all just address them between patients. The check in process changed quite a bit for the medical assistant. Whereas before, the medical assistant would take the vitals, review the med list, then leave the rest of the documentation to the provider (and the transcriptionist would do the rest); the medical assistant now builds the chart before the provider goes in to see the patient (i.e. vitals, reason for visit, history, updating medication list)
- With the elimination of medical records and transcription, we absorbed them on the front line. In order to see the same amount of patients and complete the documentation at the time of visit, it has required more manpower at the time of service. We have the same amount of employees as we did with our paper charting.
Pain management
6-10 practitioners