I gotta tell ya I may be in quite a small minority here but AHLTA is working just fine for me. I enter my S/O free text - maybe with the DX Prompt - then enter a diagnosis, code and go. It is in some ways easier than the EMR at my civilian hospital. Still miss the dictation days though
A good point was made about AHLTA and bean counting - it really isn't for us - it's for future data mangement mining.
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I'm not happy with the speed but once we dumped the stupid MEDCIN tree, and free texted things got faster and the notes more readable. Many Commands are buying Dragon voice dictation softward to allow for the speed of dictating into open SO fields. They bought 1000 licenses in Europe and there is talk of a DOD bulk buy for Mil Med. This would be a big improvement.