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Charting Systems

I have used PowerChart, Epic, Citrix, TDS and Meditech... and paper charting of course.

Of these, Meditech is THE WORST! (actually TDS was but thankfully the facility quickly changed over to EPIC after I arrived) The facility I am in is still using Meditech 5.3(something like that) and its inadequacies are so frustrating. We've been promised 6.0 for some time but the date keeps getting pushed back.

Among my complaints:

This DOS-based format is absurd

You have to close everything you're doing to look up something else

It's difficult to track past orders, therefore we still do half-half paper orders

It's impossible to view data trends

Have any of you worked with this particular EMR?

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    My current hospital uses Meditech....HATE IT,!! I think only the people who've never used anything else would actually like it. My last two hospitals used HEC (McKesson), now that I really liked...never used epic, but never heard anything bad either

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    Just moved provinces to start a new job - which I love - but *cannot believe* there's a program this bad and outdated. I'm used to the user-friendly Powerchart - I never even needed training for it it's that simple and straightforward. Meditech on the other hand is counterintuitive to anyone who's used to modern computers imo. Meditech looks like something from the mid-90's. I hate hate hate hate hate it. And not because I'm not used to it - because I can't imagine a worse system. Glad others out there agree with me as it's boggling my mind why any health authority would chose it. Ok rant over lol.

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    I actually got here by googling "meditech sucks" that's how much I dislike it lol

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