Discharge instructions programs

[Sheerstress]

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Does anyone here know of any good discharge instructions computer programs for an ED?

Specifically, I am looking for something that has the usual database of diagnoses and instructions, but that also allows the physician to write his or her own specific instructions and diagnosis (that may not be in the database) and use them repeatedly as needed.

 

[Fin-Nor]

script rx

 

[Fin-Nor]

here's the link. i dont know how its compared to others, but ive seen it at a few.

http://www.scriptrx.com/

 

[DrQuinn]

scriptRx is the bizomb.

Q, DO

 

[Sheerstress]

Thanks, guys - I'll check it out!

 

[deleted6669]

the epic electronic medical record system has a set of canned d/c instructions that you can change or add to. I have only seen this system in hmo's.

 

[Sessamoid]

Originally posted by bryant
script rx

I had serious issues with the ScriptRx interface. Obviously designed by programmers, and not users, or even usability experts. Plus it was slow, and it crashed a lot (Windows NT I think it was, which explains the slowness). Still it was useful.

 

[spyderdoc]

My ED does not have many pre-printed discharge sheets, so I use Micromedex's aftercare instructions...They are pretty good, there is a space to type additional instructions, and it sure saves me a lot of writing...
MD Consult also has decent discharge instructions...
Most hospitals have subsciptions to these resources, so they are usually readily available...

 

[Sheerstress]

Thanks for the other suggestions - do any of these companies appear at some of the larger ACEP meetings during the year?

 

[DrQuinn]

Originally posted by Sessamoid
I had serious issues with the ScriptRx interface. Obviously designed by programmers, and not users, or even usability experts. Plus it was slow, and it crashed a lot (Windows NT I think it was, which explains the slowness). Still it was useful.

You dont' use it anymore? What do you use?

Q, DO

 

[Sessamoid]

The hospital installed a hospital-wide information system by Cerner. The ED part of it, imho, sucks rocks. It's the discharge module in that program that we're using, which compares about equally with Script Rx in usability in that they both were obviously designed by people who don't work in ER's.

The new system runs on these little thin clients with CPUs that seem to be powered by anemic paraplegic hamsters in running wheels. The thin clients run some crap version of Windows CE 😡 which crash constantly, and sometimes refuse to boot back up.

 

[Fin-Nor]

yeah, its true that the machines runnin' scriptrx are slow. although it shouldnt resort to this, but it takes time getting used to it and its speed.

if it were up to me... i'd put it on a machine running amd64 chip, at least 512mb ddr, and windows 2000.

dont konw y they use such watered down machines for these things...

other than the hardware, the software is appealing to the eye 🙂

 

[Sessamoid]

Originally posted by bryant

if it were up to me... i'd put it on a machine running amd64 chip, at least 512mb ddr, and windows 2000.

dont konw y they use such watered down machines for these things...

other than the hardware, the software is appealing to the eye 🙂

And who's going to pay for that 1337 hardware? That's simply not realistic for an advertising-based service.

Why they use windows at all is boggling to me. Using a general purpose OS for a machine that only needs to do one thing is silly. They should either use one of the commercial embedded OSs (that don't suck) or a stripped down Linux kernel and just the drivers necessary to run that one application.