If you are trying to combine everything in the imported items, the best way is to go to the imported items folder for that patient and combine them from there.
The "print entire chart" print preview will bring up multiple parts of the chart in their own window. Imported items will open in their native application so PDFs in Acrobat, letters you typed will come up in HTML (yuk!) in a browser, Word in Word, etc. Alternatively, you can combine all of the files using something like:
http://www.eprintdriver.com/combine-multiple-docs.htmlIf you Google "PDF combine files" you will see that and tons of pdf merge programs or you can Google "PDF merge."
There are many programs which will allow you to merge pdfs. No one really does it better than Adobe, but they are rather pricey.
Personally, I do it this way, which is certainly not the only way to do it. I definitely don't use Print Entire Chart. I bring up Past Encounters, Progress Notes Only and print those to pdf using a free pdf print driver. I then pull up the Immunization Record from the summary sheet and print to pdf. I then pull up their entire Imported Items (I get it from F.A.P., but you can pull them from the imported items folder -- everything is already in pdf for me) and merge them. There are tools that I mentioned on Google that will allow you to combine all files into one. That gives me three files. The progress notes, the immunization record and all of their records, consults, labs, etc. Using Adobe (you can use any of the others on Google), I then merge all three into one file.
This may sound like a lot of work, but I would estimate I can do all three in less than three minutes.
