Andrew Cameron wrote:
I'm really starting to hate conversions...and just yesterday a client asked
me if I could upgrade 3 sites to MD3,
Oh well I'm off on holiday tomorrow :)
Andrew,
Yes they are a pain at times. My current - and looming ever greater -
bugbear is the crap that MD2 has allowed practices to put into their
databases. Patients without surnames; no DOB's; no postcode goes in if
the suburb is misspelled and no warning is given; incorrect Medicare
numbers; merging duplicates and 'near duplicates'; corrupted patient
files with misallocated clinical information, etc.
The vast number of practices on MD2 will be confronted with the need to
tidy up to some degree. Getting them to do so prior to changeover day
can be an impossible task. I have one that runs MD and their PM software
separately because they can't agree among themselves whose job it is to
fix all the MD errors, so they double-enter everything, and have done so
for more than a year and a half.
The other problem is practices wanting everything to be exactly how it
used to be, even though their old dot-matrix label printer won't behave
under XP; no-one knows where lots of important stuff is hidden on their
systems; being unrealistic about keeping obsolete software - I have one
practice that continues to do its care plans in Mimscript alongside MD.
How they hope to ever get the data out is beyond me. Maybe the GPMPs
have put an end to it, who knows.
Oh yes, a clean install is child's play by comparison.
Greg
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Greg Twyford
Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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