Do you use a Tablet PC?

[sailorwayne]

Originally Posted by Admin

Anyone here use a Tablet PC at work? If so, what kind do you have? Is it linked into your EMR?

Yes, w/voice to xcriber & many templates by WISE Medical

[Admin]

Hi Wayne, welcome to the site.

How are you finding using your Tablet? Would you recommend them to others?

Chris

[smandler]

I am an adult and child psychiatrist and I like to scribble my notes while Im talking to patients. That becomes my progress note. Would a tablet PC be a good way to do this to get rid of all the paper in my office. I could gradually convert from paper to electronic. Does anyone recomend a tablet pc that would do a good job at that kind of thing ? Character recognition is not that important to me
Thanks
Steve

[techguy]

I think one possible EMR you could look at using is MedScribbler since it is designed to use handwriting recognition. I imagine you could choose to do it recognize your handwriting or not.

As far as hardware there are a lot of good choices out there. I personally prefer the convertible tablets, because then you are flexible enough to open the keyboard and mouse if you need it. If you want a pure tablet I've heard good things about Sahara tablets.

I have a psychiatrist doing EMR, but he types everything into it. He didn't see the need for a tablet since tablets become more useful the more mobile you become. He likes EMR quite well and espescially likes the ability to run reports on diagnosis/RX/demographic info that he can use for future research. Not to mention no more searching for charts.

[wendlaanna@yahoo.com]

I am also a child and adolescent psychiatrist and I use my Tablet PC every day with a fully integrated EMR/PM system specifically for Mental Health called PsychNotesEMR. (www.psychnotesemr.com). We have been using it at my office (www.solutionspa.com) since November of 2004 after hiring developers to build us an application which would do what was not available on the market at that time. The latest version (released April 2007) is now available to the public and provides a remarkable level of sophistication together with ease of use and low price. We are thrilled with it and I love using my Tablet with patients. If you haven't already found something I strongly suggest you check out the free trial available or at least the demo on the website. Good luck to you.

[wendlaanna@yahoo.com]

I use a Tablet PC every day in my Psychiatry practice and I have found the Tablet in conjunction with my current EMR application (PsychNoteEMR available at www.PsychNotesEMR.com) to be indispensible in running my office. I can see patients and record notes in real time as well as look up medications, lab results, previous notes and outside records and evaluations all while the patient is in the office. In addition PsychNotesEMR provides both Psychiatry EMR and full practice management functions including billing, scheduling, prescribing and electronic claims filing all customised for psychiatry.