MBA HealthGroup

The Allscripts Client Experience in Las Vegas from August 5th-7th, 2010 was a huge success for MBA HealthGroup.  If you stopped by our booth to say “Hi!”, we’d like to thank you for giving us a chance to tell you a little about how we can help your organization.  If you remember, our booth also said “Every great partnership starts with an introduction”, so we’re looking forward to creating some great partnerships in 2010 and into 2011!

If you’re an Allscripts client that talked to us at ACE, click here for a summary of what we can do for you.

We’re packing our stuff up and moving out to Las Vegas for our favorite healthcare conference of the year, the Allscripts Client Experience, 2010!  Stop by our booth and pick up a button.  Each button has a number on it, some are lucky numbers, some aren’t so lucky.  The lucky numbers will have a chance to win an iPad, a gift card or two, and a bunch of other MBA HealthGroup giveaways.

We’re looking forward to our first time exhibiting at ACE! Hopefully we see you there!

With the iPad, you can use any Allscripts EHR solution via Citrix or even RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).  While it’s nice to be able to access the full software application on the iPad, it might be easier if there there were an application developed specifically for the iPad. As you may have seen at ACE 2010 in Las Vegas, Allscripts is also working on their own iPad App for a more fluid user experience. Codenamed Project Wombat, the Allscripts iPad Application is designed exactly the way you would expect an iPad app to look.  Clean, simple, intuitive.  We’ll have to wait a little while until it comes out, so while we’re waiting, it might not hurt to configure your iPad to access your full EHR application.

Today we set up our Allscripts Enterprise v11.1.7 Environment to allow for access by an iPad.  By downloading an App called “Citrix Receiver” and making some changes to our Citrix environment, we were successfully able to use Enterprise from the iPad.  In my experience, Enterprise EHR works very much like you would expect it to, except on a super-light, easy to use device.  There are downsides though, one being that the iPad does not have the processing power to run Dragon Medically Speaking.  That means that if you choose not to use a v11 form, you’re stuck with a keyboard.  The soft keyboard takes up far too much real estate, so if I were to use this regularly to access the EHR, I would certainly invest in a hard keyboard docking station.  See the video below:

Over the weekend I saw a press release about Allscripts Remote (TM), an iPhone application by Allscripts that allows you to connect to your Enterprise EHR (and Professional EHR) databases from anywhere.  I searched the Apple Store and was surprised to see I could download it for Free.  From what I understand, there will be a charge for this product and I’m assuming Allscripts will have to install licenses on clients servers for them to gain access, but they were nice enough to provide sample data so I could play around with the application.