We are a small rural hospital looking at different EMR systems to initiate.

schroeders_piano, RN · Oct 29, 2009

CPSI is pretty user friendly and the company adapts to your setting(ie critical access hospital, large teaching hospital, etc.). CPSI has also been around since the 90's with their EMR system. If you go with CPSI, they come in and help with the training and they are in the building for when you go live with the system.

I have also used Meditech. Meditech is ok. I just like CPSI better, mainly because I used it longer. I do suggest when it comes to Meditech to use Logicare for the ER. Logicare is compatible with Meditech and is much easier to use then the Meditech ER components.

ONCRN84 · Oct 29, 2009

I've used Soarian (I think a Seimans product?) and Meditech... Meditech makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

meluhn · Oct 29, 2009

CPRS works well...we use it at the VA and it is pretty user friendly

I just have to tell you I love your avatar. LOL. I repeat Stuart Smallies mantra to myself quite often.

Cassaundra · Oct 29, 2009

We just implemented CPSI.... What a pain in the rump! I don't know how much of it has to do with the admins trying to work the layout and how much is just the general cumbersome nature of the system, but it takes us 3 times as long to take care of our charting and med administration. It looks and acts like a DOS program.

martalli · Jul 28, 2010

We have used CPSI at our hospital. It is a travesty of an EHR tacked onto a billing program. The system seems more like a way to capture data for the billing system than a program intent on the care of the patients. The interface is cludgy and very slow, and information has actually been LOST in the system, including blood cultures which cannot be found in the system...necessitating a call to Quest to get new results. These cultures in fact had shown in the system at first and then disappeared. After a year and a half with CPSI our hospital is looking at other options. One of them was HMS, and it appeared to be little better than CPSI.

Parts of CPSI are actually still written in FORTRAN (from the 70's), and the interface appears to still reflect a 1980's way of interacting with the computer.