Paul
Paul is a GP at a sole practice in the south island
Very remote, standard patient size, but possibly the largest geographical area served.
Patients always come to him, apart from ambulance callouts
Has used both MedTech32, and Profile for Mac, 100% loves profile for mac.
26 patients a day - very quick, 15 min slots
Profile for mac provides a very similar feature set to MedTech. Multi-window ui can be arranged as needed
Standard patient flow - view appointment list, open record, review, edit notes, invoice.
Record includes
- Tasks, Emails
Scripts, Notes
Vaccinations, Measurements, Results, Medical, Family, Social,
Problem List (Organized into folders (Adverse, Diagnoses, Practice, Procedures, Social/Risk, Family History))
Neat feature of problem list - visitaiton notes can be tagged against problems. So if you click on problem, you can view all related notes.
Also handles invoicing
Profile was started for the New Zealand market, but they've been finding more comercial success in canada. Developed by a doctor who swapped careers
Spends most of his time either entering notes, or browsing notes
Likes the power of graphing measurements.
He stores a copy of his records on his machine, and backs them up nightly to his own raid drives
Has shitty internet
He does his own backups, and can restore a backup in 20 mins, as opposed to a few days.
The one thing he dislikes about his software is slow updates. Profile has both Mac and Windows versions, but only one person is working on the mac version.
Profile has a filtering system - if you want to remove things from lists for windows you can
Was concerned about how the shared care record system was rolled out - thought it shouldn't be presumed that patients want their data shared.
However, thought the details and utility was really good
Definetly views notes by other medical professionals which he can't make sense of - eg a nurse he works with.
Profile's killer feature is UI. Views medtech's UI as a huge time waster, annoyed when it asks him if he wants to do an action. Describes as 'clunky'. Loves the user interface of profile.
In terms of what he would change, he'd give every gp in nz profile and a mac, and minor UI tweaks
Profile's database query system is very powerful
Says that most doctors he talks to aren't that interested in trying new tools, most don't like how different the interface is to what they're used to.
He occasionally provides tech support to other intitutions he knows which are using profile - they email him saying ahhh somethings not working,
He is very interested, he beta tests the software for the company. They send him new builds regularly, and he's expert at finding bugs - often hes in contact multiple times a week
Wants to be able to link between parts of the record in more places. Eg result in notes.