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From: Trefor Roscoe <[log in to unmask]>
>BTW, talking about RFA accreditation, Torex, who took over Microdoc, have
dumped the Microdoc Win95 product Eureka as it is more
>than 6 months off RFA testing, not a few weeks as they were lead to believe
when they paid £4.5M for the company. Anyone out there a
>fan of Torex Premiere?
>
>Trefor
I suspect taking over GP IT suppliers may be a mugs' game, but yes, I rather
like Premiere.
It has certain virtues compared to various of its competitors although like
all current commercial Windows progs of the sort it is complicated.
Having used Ambridge as a locum I know where some of its habits come from,
and in 1992 I was impressed by the easy way in which one of its other
progenitors handled multiple patient records (9 at th time, theoretically I
think).
Premiere handles both multiple instances of the program, its MDI that is,
and also multiple patients within each MDI should you choose to do that. I
would advise the former approach, and also obtaining a 17" screen to do it
on, but I think we should all be using 17" by now anyway.
In the long term we should move to owning the documents, and buying the
programs used to manipulate them, but Premiere is a very good example of the
sort of thing we need in the meantime.
I think the company, like all companies involved, needs a nudge toward
accepting that it is selling one of the several programs that run on a
practice's network, rather than taking over complete control of the whole of
the practices IM&T - obvious because all PCGs are not going to standardise
on a single system, and therefore there will be third party (eg MS and
Netware) software running as well as the EMR engine.
But yes, it is OK.
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