sharemedicalspace.com is a website where doctors can post and search medical space to share. You can search using fields like specialty, location, number of exam rooms, day-of-week availability etc. The searcher finds the contact info of the listing colleague. Right now it's free, but the site will be charging $360/quarter in fall - still a bargain compared with other classified ads.
Sharemedicalspace has been live for about 8 months now, and they have almost 1,000 listings already! They continue to market the site in medical newspapers as well as on Google. They also are happy about the response to a direct mail marketing campaign to some of the larger states. I really think it will be of great benefit to all doctors as we try to be more economical and practice more efficiently.
Here is the link: www.sharemedicalspace.com
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Extormity, a classic EMR
Finally someone who has illustrated my feelings on EMRs beautifully and intelligently by creating a tongue in cheek website adverstising what we all know so very well, the EMR company who tries hard, very hard to extort you, to sell you a "product" that is still underdeveloped, underperforms, yet is horribly expensive due to initial purchasing cost, training, installation, and especially due to (the big hope for additional regular income of all EMR companies) the cost of maintenance!
Take a look at this: http://www.extormity.com/
This is the right answer when all those "experts" on health care just state how flabbergasted they are that those physicians are sooo slow in adopting such a wonderful new and effective technology that promises soooo much improvement....Right?
Right! Speaking of personal experience, EMRs are immature, at the level of performace of MS DOS Word 2.0 as compared to WinWord today, they are a drain on performance, usually are designed and programmed by people as far away as possible from daily clinical practice and by far too expensive.
My personal hope is for Google or someone wiht enough smarts to actually listen to users (yes, us physicians) to come up with a really good electronic medical record that is easy and intuitive to use, fast, saves work instead of creating it.
Until then consultants, hold your opinions and maybe, maybe, do the unthinkable - actually try using one yourself. I know that this is a bad no-no for experts and consultants, but it might be worth a try once in a while....
Take a look at this: http://www.extormity.com/
This is the right answer when all those "experts" on health care just state how flabbergasted they are that those physicians are sooo slow in adopting such a wonderful new and effective technology that promises soooo much improvement....Right?
Right! Speaking of personal experience, EMRs are immature, at the level of performace of MS DOS Word 2.0 as compared to WinWord today, they are a drain on performance, usually are designed and programmed by people as far away as possible from daily clinical practice and by far too expensive.
My personal hope is for Google or someone wiht enough smarts to actually listen to users (yes, us physicians) to come up with a really good electronic medical record that is easy and intuitive to use, fast, saves work instead of creating it.
Until then consultants, hold your opinions and maybe, maybe, do the unthinkable - actually try using one yourself. I know that this is a bad no-no for experts and consultants, but it might be worth a try once in a while....
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