Hosted EHR outage
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We just surpassed 20 mins in this outage!
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35 mins... and counting....
It's one thing for email to be down for 30 mins.. but your main business app... so much for having failover DCs.... I guess they forgot to test them.
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Wow that isn't good.
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55 Mins and stillllllllll Counting!
They have a backup site that is a view only copy of the system - it finally came back up about 5 mins ago.
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Which EHR program is this?
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athenaNet.
Since we went live with this EMR in Sept 2013 we've had the following outages:
Oct 12 - over a 2 hour time period the service came and went about 4 times - athena requested that all users 'reconfigure' their browsers to work after the fix.
Oct 24 2.5 hours - a random number of users could not connect, approx 30% of our users could not work.
March 7 2.25 hours - performance issues causing long delays or timeouts and disconnects
March 27 40 min - athena network completely unreachable
April 11 2 mins - all users dropped connection. athena claims no issue, firewall had nothing odd, ISP did not indicate an outage, even a brief one.
April 18 1 hr 10 and counting - Page cannot be displayed... -
sounds like care tracker or SRS....
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And they came back online at 12:07 local time.
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That's crazy. Those are huge outages for a really critical app!
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Yep!
Their annual user meeting is next week. My boss has asked me to provide her with the outage information (why I had it handy) so she can complain to someone onsite I guess.
Frankly I'm not sure what good it will do. We are a small fish in their pond. We've seen that from day one.. it's their way or the highway and they really don't give a crap about you the customer the day after the transition period is over.
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What's the SLA on that package?
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I have no idea, they don't allow me to be part of the process for that at all.
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@Dashrender said:
I have no idea, they don't allow me to be part of the process for that at all.
At least you can say it isn't your issue when it is down. Just point doctors to the decision makers.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I have no idea, they don't allow me to be part of the process for that at all.
At least you can say it isn't your issue when it is down. Just point doctors to the decision makers.
Oh they know... but that doesn't stop my boss from standing in my doorway saying is it up yet? But the good thing, as far as I can tell, no one is blaming me or getting upset in my direction. It's just sad.. no matter what direction you look, I have yet to see a good EHR system that anyone really truly likes and is happy with.
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Crazy that someone doesn't step into that market gap.
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My clinic finds itself in a slightly odd setup (at least that's what the boss tells me). We have an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) that is wholly owned and only used by our own physicians, no outsiders.
In the realm of ASCs as far as AAAHC is concerned ASCs are typically self standing entities where physicians come and go as needed, but are not owned by a single clinic. As such the AAAHC requires that all ASCs have their own independent charts that are separate from any the physicians maintain at their private clinics, the same way hospitals typically work (or at least used to). Our physicians are frustrated by this requirement that they are suppose to basically pay for two charting programs when there is never an outside providers involved.
Furthermore, being a specialty office, we have yet to see an EHR (other than million dollar plus) that supports our requirements without extensive tweaking and setup (and really I'm wrong, the million dollar plus ones simply give you the options you require/desire to setup the EHR, where the cheap ones don't so your left creating workarounds that are rarely what you really want), even worse, from our experience, no one has a good solution for surgical medicine, or anesthesia (all the local hospitals chart to paper in the OR, then scan those documents in as PDFs).
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We find ourselves way ahead of the curve when it comes to use of the EHR. When we decided to go forward with an EHR, we went full tilt. No more paper charting (but I found out later that wasn't entirely true as our anesthesiologist does chart to paper - I guess it takes to long to type in the type and type of meds being give as fast as they are, etc).
We did it pretty successfully too in our first EHR Clinician from Bond Medical, which was bought by Medinotes, who then merged with Allscripts where ultimately our product was EOL'ed in favor of Allscripts current product. Unfortunately the support provided by Allscripts was so poor that we pretty much wrote them off immediately as a viable alternative to move to.
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Ironically small one doctor practices have complained that EHRs are not setup for the way they run their practice. Too hard to too much time needed to make it as easy a using a paper chart. The disturbing part was the argument that 50% of what the EHR was supposed to document is not normally done by the doctors, so why should they have to change the way to do business.
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I wonder if that means that doctors don't document enough or of there is a need for EHRs targeted at small doctors' offices.
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From what I can tell, drs are now required to document a lot more than they used to.
Also, drs used to walk out of a room and rattle off a list of things to do to the nurses, now the doc is responsible to put those orders in the system themselves. I figure this is to ensure the proper orders entered, and If wrong, the only one to blame is the doc.
