Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
Greg
I have seen what Nigel answered. He is correct, not all the bells &
whistles of MD2 is in BP but neither are they in MD3.
BP has bells & whistles that neither MD2 nor MD3 has - & MD3 can never have
some of them until the DBF / document handling system is removed from MD3.
The main bell & whistle component that I like is live updates. Doctors can
happily be using BP on workstations while the Server gets updated. A few
Doctors & IT persons nearly die when they hear this claiming Data
corruption may / can occur etc. There is no truth in this rumour. The
experts use live updates because it is safe. In a large practice it means
no down time at midnight to update Server, then W/S's. The other Bells &
whistles I like is diagrams, nursing home charts to mention a few.
Remember I was a Betatester for MD2 (from before the official MDW was
released), & Alpha tester for MD3 until I left. I also was a Betatester for
PS1,2 & 3. I still find bugs in PS3 that the current betatesters don't find
and it takes months for HCN to fix these bugs I find in PS3 - I'm still
waiting for a fix for some. A very poor advert for HCN. Thus I know a bit
about testing software.
The important question to ask: If I knew in December 2004 what I know now,
would I still have taken the leap into the unknown with BP - YES !!
I had no difficulty in migrating my Data from MD2 to BP. As far as I can
establish, everything is there (I still have MD on one machine to see if
something is missing that may not have migrated - still zero finds).
Do I miss anything seriously: No ! There are some minor irritations that
Frank fixes once we complain about it. An example is his care plans: They
needs some Minor adjustments, but nothing to cause me heartache.
Was there an early adopters program - No, because Frank was so confident in
what he had built, he knew it would work.
All my friends who changed to BP needed very little if any support in
migrating Data to BP & using the program as the process is so simple & fool
proof.
Cedric
Cedric,
Thanks for your fulsome feedback, much appreciated. I'm sure lots of
people on the list will take note of your comments.
I know you've been a beta tester and I suspect you've avoided a lot of
the issues some of your colleagues face.
In relation to missing bells and whistles, MD 2.85 doesn't have the GPMP
and TCA that was said would be included. These are notable omissions.
Do you want some 3rd party templates? I know they'll work for you in BP
if they work in MD.
The need for a 'liveupdate' facility was something that the guys from
HCN told us [Sydney Divisional IM&T people] was in the pipeline back in
December 2004.
But then they told us MD3 was in the pipeline back in 2001.
Greg
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Greg Twyford
Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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