optoblog.com » PIM http://www.optoblog.com Personal Opinion Blog of David Langford Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2005-2010 editor@optoblog.com (David Langford, O.D.) editor@optoblog.com (David Langford, O.D.) Optometry 1440 http://www.optoblog.com/images/optobloglogo144.jpg optoblog.com » PIM http://www.optoblog.com 144 144 OPTOBLOG>COM is an optometry news blog- info related to optometric research, equipment, products, and practice. Optometry News Blog- info related to optometric research, equipment, products, and practice. Optometrist, Optometry, vision, eye, ophthalmic, ophthalmology, optometric, practice, Walmart David Langford, O.D. David Langford, O.D. editor@optoblog.com no no OfficeMate ExamWriter 7.4 http://www.optoblog.com/2007/12/06/officemate-examwriter-74/ http://www.optoblog.com/2007/12/06/officemate-examwriter-74/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:56:00 +0000 David Langford http://www.optoblog.com/2007/12/06/officemate-examwriter-74/ Officemate ExamWriter now comes with the long awaited “feature” of allowing you to scroll up and down with a mouse wheel.

Thank You!!!!

Glass-is-half-full thinking would make me want to curse you for making me mouse-click scroll for the last year and a half, but I’m going to try to stay positive.

]]> http://www.optoblog.com/2007/12/06/officemate-examwriter-74/feed/ 4 Optometric EHR wants #3 http://www.optoblog.com/2007/10/02/optometric-ehr-wants-3/ http://www.optoblog.com/2007/10/02/optometric-ehr-wants-3/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:12:50 +0000 David Langford http://www.optoblog.com/2007/10/02/optometric-ehr-wants-3/ At my round of golf after some CE a couple weeks ago, the topic of conversation drifted to what practice management software was everyone using. Of course, for years we have been inundated with PIM/EHR software ads in industry magazines and booths at conferences and conventions. I still haven’t seen an appreciable improvement in the EHR part of the package. Sure, the PIM helps me track the money, but the EHR still slows me done. It would be faster to draft a paper chart and then scan it under the patient’s name in the PIM.

The whole reason to utilize a database for EHR would be to track numbers over time. For example, OfficeMate has this feature in the fields of IOP and C/D ratio. BUT THE WHOLE CHART SHOULD BE THIS WAY! And it would be great to have the functionality to analyze binocular testing data according to OEP, graphical, and normative analysis.

Anyway, if your EMR is just basically storing text for you instead of inserting data into searchable/analyzable database fields, I think it’s faster to scan your paper copy and link it into the PIM instead. Plus it will save you money on buying a separate EMR module.

Here were EHR wants number one and two.

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