As one who still prints off encounter notes, I may not really appreciate the dilemma this EULA thing is causing many of you. To me, a simple way of handling the access to patient data should AC go belly up, should one decide or be forced to change to other EMR's or should Jon decide to "jettison assholes", would be to just print to a paper form the data one has stored in a patient file. Yes, after 10-20 years of use this could be a monumental task but, not really any more difficult than those who have been in practice 10-20 years and are now trying to scan into an EMR all of their accumulated data. That hard copy data can then be taken with you to another practice or, heaven forbid, rescanned into another program which has not recognized you as an asshole.


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. "