Which EHR do you use at your practice

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Jul 9, 2015

I live within an hour of epic (it's a small city itself!) my BFF throughout school works there in payroll. In June they hired 500 new employees. On July 1, 700 new employees. Clearly there are many facilities using epic :)

Alicia777, MSN, NP · Jul 9, 2015

We are in the dark ages and still using Meditech!

rnsrgr8t · Jul 10, 2015

My hospital system (inpatient and outpatient) uses Epic. I love it. I love the CareEverywhere feature... a lot of the local hospital systems use Epic as well so we can get records easily. I work in a specialty so a lot of the patients come with no records or for a second opinion so it is nice to have access quick. My hospital system also has primary care so when our patient's PCP is part of our network it is so nice b/c everything is there. I also like having access to the other specialties instantly. We also have a patient portal that gives them access to their lab tests etc and they can securely email us through the system and it automatically populates in the medical record. They can even securely email us pictures of their post op wound appearance if they have concerns (can often save a visit) and THAT automatically is entered into the patient chart. We also have a way for our secretaries to leave us patient phone messages through the system where we can automatically start a note in their chart with the message automatically cut/pasted. Electronic med perscribing is very easy and the pharmacies can send us refill requests (which automatically populate in the patient's chart) as well. They entered our signatures into the system so when we write letters etc, we can sign in our EMR and fax in our EMR without having to print out anything. Same with faxing records to PCP etc, easy to do through that system. Our hospital system has optimized its use over the years but I definitely like it. I do not have experience with other systems so it is hard for me to compare. My OBGYN and allergist have EMR too but, just watching the staff use it, it looks clunky.

greygirl81 · Jul 10, 2015

I'm currently working on a chart abstraction job working with Allscripts and Epic. I much prefer Epic.

MallysMama · Jul 11, 2015

Not an NP yet...but our hospitals use Epic. Before I moved, I worked in a hospital system that used Cerner. As a nurse, I like Cerner better.

lhflanurseNP, APRN · Jul 11, 2015

Not sure if this is geared towards hospital NPs only, but I use eClinicalWorks in the office setting.

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Jul 12, 2015

That's encouraging, thanks!!

Not an NP yet...but our hospitals use Epic. Before I moved, I worked in a hospital system that used Cerner. As a nurse, I like Cerner better.

LV3677 · Jul 19, 2015

I've used Paragon, Meditech, and Epic. Epic is by far the best of the three. Paragon is absolutely horrible- I would not work at a facility again that uses Paragon; in fact, I make it point to ask about what charting system the hospital uses during interviews after having to use it! Paragon is incredibly time consuming to chart even one thing, crashed frequently, not user friendly whatsoever.

nursetim, NP · Jul 22, 2015

First EMR I used was nextgen, meh, ok. Then Epic, much better, but not without its hiccups. Used allscripts in hospice. I really dislike allscripts, so much so as I'll decline an assignment if they have allscripts.

globalRN · Jul 23, 2015

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automotiveRN67 · Jul 23, 2015

I have used eclinicalworks and amazing charts in offices in the past. Eclinicalworks is ok, amazing charts is not so amazing, but very inexpensive.

MamaTNurse · Apr 29, 2016

Does anyone on here know anything about Source or AMKI?