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Survey - Genie
Group GP.2 in green
Group GP.3 in blue
Group GP.4 in black
Group GP.5 in yellow - declares vested interest as was so impressed since using program has become distributor of program in Victoria Your system Hardware:Macintosh What functions does your system perform in your practice?
| Billing: | |
| Appointments: | |
| Recalls: | Yes |
| Patient Health Summmaries | Yes |
| Referral Letters | Yes |
| Patient records: | Incomplete |
| Prescription writing: | Yes |
| Pathology Downloading: | Yes |
| Waiting Room | |
| Other | Patient Education, Journal Index |
- Installation cost and ongoing costs
- $750 for Genie - Average for the Drug/MIMS updates cost nothing to install - annual sub $750.00 - Seems reasonable to me for Aus software and support Expensive (genie) but worth it Raesonable costs initially, ongoing quite cheap
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- Set Up time and ongoing time
- Software setup time 5 minutes
(tops)
- Data entry-that's another story-about ?10% easier than with Medical Director Once I had loaded my demographics I was ready to go; that was a bit of a fiddle but easy enough with email support No prob. Just follow the install scipt and presto you are installed
- Quick to learn basics but long learning curve for details each step of which is simple but the art is long Minimal time requirement
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- Level of Support received:
- Excellent, prompt, accurate and friendly Prompt, patient, pleasure to deal with Excellent so far Ist rate no complaints Rarely required but there when needed
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- Functionallity and benefits
- Genie-ideal for GP prescription
writing;Easy;Relatively simple to instal and modify if
desired;Reliable
- Still haven't exploited its full potential; it writes scripts, allows me to customise my own scripts; referral letter are improve the quality of the referral and commonly complimented on by specialists etc; the database, being fully customisable and searchable with logical operators is very powerful, especially for recalls and finding patient files with incompletely recalled information. eg find all patients first named John who live in Smith street; and so on. I have Harrisons on CD-ROM in a disc-changer and commonly cut and paste text from it into the patient notes section to explain more esoteric or less common details.
- Don't use the pateint education function much yet, but I think that's because I would prefer to write my own stuff, andf I haven't had time. The Murtagh stuff is good, but I am not familiar enough with it and I think it is important that what I say in cons coresp[onds closely wit the print-out.
- Works well for what I want it to do, especially the patient summaries Quick easy on a day to day basis tho Pathology down loads are not yet smooth due to Email isp etc not genie Easy to use and master, fantastic for improving patient care
- Still haven't exploited its full potential; it writes scripts, allows me to customise my own scripts; referral letter are improve the quality of the referral and commonly complimented on by specialists etc; the database, being fully customisable and searchable with logical operators is very powerful, especially for recalls and finding patient files with incompletely recalled information. eg find all patients first named John who live in Smith street; and so on. I have Harrisons on CD-ROM in a disc-changer and commonly cut and paste text from it into the patient notes section to explain more esoteric or less common details.
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I chose Genie over MIMS Script and
Medical Director
I used and timed them
concurrently amnd although the establishment cost of
Genie is not subsidised by advertising, I was prepared to
fork out real money for a quicker, better program.
Running costs appear to be the
same for the Mac and Wintel machines but the hardware and
software problems with the Wintel programs means that
time would have to allowed for bug fixes. This I wished
to avoid!
Genie is easier to establish,
use, modify (if the bizarre desire takes you) and backup
your precious data. The Mac hardware is notoriously
reliable.
Therefore i chose the
combination that does the job the best.
Macintosh Performa 5400 (with 24
Mb at the time), versus a 16Mb 100Mhz 586
Any GP who wants to get involved
with his patient databases information to exploit it, who
wants a straight-forward, clean functional
program.
There is no reason why a
specialist couldn't do the same.
New doctors starting from a
patient database of zero. Need someone to input the
information, so existing old doctors like myself have to
spend a lot of time inputting existing records.
Any mac user- it is expensive
but is worth it to a mac enthusiast
Any one wishing to enhance their practice
of medicine and level of patient care - provided they are
Macintosh users
| Functionality |
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| Ease of Use |
10 |
9 |
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10 |
10 |
| Reliabilty and support |
10 |
9 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
| Value for money |
10 |
10 |
9 |
10 |
9 |
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