Computerized charting in the ED

I have used both HMED and Meditech and Meditech Sucks! you spend more time looking for where things are supposed to be charted, that you might as well free text everything! I have used HMED in four seperate hospitals and I love it, it's so easy and I have never stayed late, because I thought I hadnt charted enough on a pt. I love it when my recruiter tells me that my next assignment uses HMED!

We use the Eclypsis system, wouldn't recommend it to anyone, only has spell check in select area's of the document, slow as molasses, doesn't have an efficient way of tracking times for QA. The med list section is very cumbersome and not user friendly, when you put in tylenol you get every possible kind of tylenol on the market, :banghead:their numerical sequence goes something like this 10mg, 100mg, 1000mg, 20mg, 200mg,2000mg, 30mg. Last time I checked that wasn't numerical order, but that was there response to our complaints of items not being in numerical order. Not sure where they got their programmers, but I think I might be able to get a job working for them. I took a programming class once!!

We're using Cerner in our facility. The single biggest problem I've found with it is getting information back out when charting. There are so many different places to document the same thing, but no single place all the information can be seen. It's a real PITA.