ECW Users

Terms of Service

2011-12-02T09:51:15-06:00

Welcome to the eCWusers online users group. To participate, you must register as a member. To register, please review the following Terms of Membership (“Terms”) carefully. By registering, you agree to abide by these Terms.

Registration

Although we intend to be as inclusive as possible, registration is limited to physician offices and users of eClinicalWorks software (“eCW”), as well as physicians evaluating the eCW software. We welcome individual IT support persons, supporting eCW practices, and representatives of eClinicalWorks, LLC (“eCW”) as well. In certain cases we may not permit users to register for these Forums, at our own discretion and for any reason. For example, if eCW has no record of registrant as having demo’ed their software.

License to Use Posted Materials; Monitoring

Subject to the Posting Rules set forth below, by submitting messages, information, data, text, files, links, artwork, photographs, software, or other materials (“Materials”) to any of these Forums, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such Materials has expressly granted) us the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, take excerpts from, incorporate into other works, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Materials (in whole or part), in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.

Any message posted on our Forums expresses only the views of the author of the message and does not necessarily reflect the views of these Forums or any person or entity associated with them or of eCW. Although these Forums use moderators and administrators from time to time to monitor the Materials posted in our Forums for compliance with these Terms, we cannot and do not pre-screen or monitor all such Materials. Therefore, you agree that neither these Forums, nor any person or entity associated with them, nor eCW, will be held responsible for the contents, accuracy, completeness or validity of any Materials posted in them.

Posting Rules and General Rules of Conduct

You agree that you will not use or allow others to use your membership in these Forums to:

1. Post or transmit any Materials, or links to any Materials, which are knowingly false and/or defamatory, libelous, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or threatening, which violate the right of privacy or any other right of any person or entity, or which intentionally or unintentionally violate any local, state, federal or international law or regulation.
2. Post or transmit any Materials, or links to any Materials, that infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other proprietary rights of any party. You may not post or transmit Materials that are not created or owned by you unless you have previously obtained permission from the owner thereof to post and transmit such Materials in the Forums and to license such Materials to us as set forth above.
3. Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation in the Forums (except in those Forums that are designated for buying and selling items, provided such advertising or other solicitation directly relates to such items). You will not post or transmit any chain letters, pyramid schemes or similar schemes in any Forums.
4. Impersonate any person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
5. Post or transmit any file that contains viruses, corrupted files, “Trojan Horses”, or any other contaminating or destructive features that may damage someone else’s computer.
6. Post or transmit any Materials elsewhere, or link to any Materials, contained in this forum without the permission of both the original author (poster) of said Material and of the site’s administrator. If you have questions about the use of forum Materials, please Private Message a Moderator.

The following rules of conduct are intended to make the experience of using our Forums more informative and enjoyable for all of our users:

1. As a general rule of conduct on the Forums, before posting a message on the Forums, you should ask yourself if the message is something that you would say to someone if you were speaking to them in person. In other words, you should be polite, treat others with respect, and avoid taking a confrontational or belligerent tone.
2. You may disagree with an opinion expressed in a Forum, but refrain from attacking or disparaging (i.e. “flaming”) the person who posted it.
3. As well as you can, please format your posts in standard English, using capital and lowercase letters in the traditional manner.
4. All posted Materials must directly relate to the topic of the Forum in which such Materials are posted.
5. You may not “spam” a Forum by posting the same message or other Materials on multiple occasions on the same day.

Removal of Materials

We have the right, but not the obligation, to edit and/or remove messages or other Materials that violate these Terms or that we otherwise consider objectionable or a breach of posting protocol at any time. Any user who believes that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by sending a Private Message to a Moderator. Upon receipt of such notification, we will make every effort to take such action as we deem necessary and appropriate within a reasonable period of time. However, we have no obligation to respond to any such notification or edit or remove any particular Materials, and we cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your notification. We reserve the right to edit or delete any message for any reason whatsoever, at any time and at our sole discretion.

ATTN—Existing users

2008-08-05T16:43:25-06:00

Please look at “Your Control Panel” in the menu. Adjust your time settings and Edit your profile to include the requested information. I am now requiring that all registering users give their real names, location, practice names, and relationship to eCW. It would be great if we all had that info there, to facilitate communication. Thanks!

Greg

User Forum Specialty Groups

2011-10-10T21:15:08-06:00

The moderators of the forum have declined to add specialty groups to the forum topics. We are concerned that the discussions will be become to fragmented and also that the possibilities are endless. Thank you for your understanding.

Growing Pains ... New Site bugs

2008-08-04T21:02:37-06:00

Here’s some things I have noticed about the transition. Bugs which, I’m afraid, I cannot go back and fix.

1) Posts from the old site did not maintain the proper **quote** tags and it is harder to tell what was quoted from a previous post and what was new.

2) We lost our saved Private Messages. I am sorry about this one. I hope it did not mess anyone up too much.

3) You’ll notice that our overall number of members fell from about 7500 to about 1500. This was because I decided not to transfer members who have never posted or who have not posted in a long time. In doing this, however, all the users that are no longer with us were bunched together as a single user now known as “Anonymous.” In many cases, these users are identified in the body of their posts. But in some cases they are not. The user “Anonymous” now is the third most prolific poster in the history of eCWusers. This is because this is a conglomerate of many former users. Sorry.

Trying, in my not-quite-geeky-enough way…

Greg

eCW National Users Conference 2008

2008-11-02T22:55:53-06:00

I am going to try and BLOG from the Users Conference down here in Orlando, November 2-5th. Watch for my entries on the Tips and Tricks page!

The NEW eCWusers SITE

2008-08-02T08:19:54-06:00

Welcome to our new site.

Forgive the inevitable bugs and rough edges.

There are new features, and some of the old features are gone.

First, what’s missing. We no longer have the email digests. I will miss them myself. But this is not a function of the new software. We also no longer have the individual blogs or the chat room, although these features were not used that much. The forum eCW Help Desk is no longer with us because it gave the unfair appearance of being an official eClinicalWorks Tech Support site. It was not. The company will continue to participate on the forum I am sure, but we’ll discuss topics in the proper categories and call tech support for more urgent help.

But, the forums have been reorganized to better facilitate browsing. The threads are going to be moving around a bit for a few days as we try and move old threads into new homes.

We have a new Tips and Tricks page, which will develop as a blog, accessed by our site moderators. Whenever a post is deemed to be particularly helpful (and you can hit the Report button and let us know if you think this is the case), it will be categorized and copied to the Tips and Tricks page which will, in time, become a compendium of usefulness.

And I am nervously going to try out a new section called the Bug Tracker. This should allow us a single place to report bugs, and I hope make it easier for eCW reps to follow these reports, which should be more organized and less repetitive (I hope). More on this to follow.

First things first… Go to Your Profile and Your Control Panel and update all of your information.

With the conversion, I lost a few things. I lost my list of moderators and specific user group members (e.g., the PM working group, the E&M;working group). Please PM if you were a moderator and you no longer are, or if you were a member of a specific group. Also, pm me if you’re interested in becoming a moderator.

Welcome!

Greg Hinson, MD
administrator, eCWusers.com

FORUM MIGRATION

2008-03-15T10:52:12-06:00

I am hoping to have the long-awaited new ECWUSERS.COM site up within the next couple of weeks. As such, there will be a number of changes.

Within the next couple of days, I plan to re-organize the order of the forums and sub-forums. I am going to expand the options some, to try and help make the information here more usable. As this is happening, the site might be down for an hour or two, here and there.

I will be using Expression Engine software, which should allow for several new features compared to the phpbb we’re using now, and plan on migrating all of the data that is here, so that nothing is lost. One reason for the migration is that phpbb is not as secure as it used to be and over the past few months, the spambots have found the site. I get 2 dozen registration attempts a day from users such as “HerbalViagra” and “BuyCigarettesOnline.” None of them have made it through due to my tight registration policies, but there are a number of inactive users (i.e., never activated) here that I need to delete.

I am looking into migrating active users and not bringing along old, inactive and phony users. Inevitably I will miss quite a few users. If the new site goes live and you’re not registered. Please just register again and I will activate the memberships as fast as possible.

Lastly, I mentioned the new features. I’ll go into more details soon. We should have a greatly improved site soon. I thank everyone who took the time to click on the Paypal button and donate to the site. You guys made it possible for me to hire someone to make this happen!

Forum Fundraising…want to improve eCWusers.com

2007-05-17T18:26:57-06:00

I would like to redesign ecwusers. It’s starting to show its age. I use a forum software called phpbb and it desperately needs upgrades to keep with our purposes and traffic. What’s nice about phpbb is that it is free. I want to purchase a commercial forums software (ExpressionEngine.com) and hire a developer to help me get a new site ready. It would be a fresh install. The forums will be reorganized. The registration process will be improved. The profile will give us more useful information about the different members.

But I need money to do this, and to continue doing this without advertisers. I will contribute $250 to the project. I need about $1250. So I need 40 users willing to donate $25 each to help me get this done. To donate, go back to the home page and click on the Donate button at the bottom of the page.

If you have any questions, drop them here or send me a PM! Otherwise thanks for everyone’s help!

Greg

I’ve registered, now what?

2005-05-29T13:39:10-06:00

After you register, I will get an email asking me to approve your account. You will be notified when this happens, and it usually happens within a couple of hours (as long as you answered all of the questions that were asked of you). Once your account is approved, please consider opening the Profile on the menu above and setting up your profile.

It is helpful if you create a signature that tells us more about yourself. If you like, add your name and location. Even if you remain anonymous, it would be helpful if you were to include the following information in your signature: user status (“shopping”, “awaiting implementation”, “user since 5/02/2004”) and specialty. By adding specialty to your profile, it makes the search function more useful for those looking for posts regarding specific fields of medicine.

Next, click on Digests and setup the email Digests function. See the next post for more information.

THANKS!

Greg

email issues

2005-02-22T03:03:32-06:00

A few words about email.

If you insist on using a free, generic email address, please keep your email boxes clear. When a message bounces, which is amazingly frequent, I get a notice. And I am tired of clearing these messages from my box.

Secondly, if your email address has a spam blocker, please add ecwusers.com to your okay list. I get 3 or 4 emails a day asking me to click a link to verify who I say I am so that I can be added to someone’s spam-free list. I am no longer going to click these links.

Thanks!