Well, I am too anal I guess also because I have been scanning 20 years worth of charts for the last 1 and 1/2 years. But, I am not really in a hurry. I have a part-timer who does this as well as takes care of other odds and ends in the office. I actually go through each chart and pull out things like colonoscopies, pertinent xrays, recent labs, consults, etc. and import them directly into their appropriate AC categories after scanning. The rest of the chart is then separated and scanned in as files like "LABAROTORY...Old labs", "PRIOR RECORDS...Dr. Strouse", "RADIOLOGY...Old Xrays" and so on. Although it is taking more time on the front end to do this, it is a real time saver for me on the back end when I am looking for specific information. I then shred the chart. I have less than one file cabinet left to do and that contains a number of patients who have not been here in years and likely will not return. I am not sure I am going to scan them.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "