Jennifer, I echo all the others' wishes for a speedy recovery and good health.
I would strongly encourage you (and others) to check out the free software program "PDF reDirect" (
www.exp-systems.com).
With it you can easily do the things Bert described above. After installing, the print driver should show up as one of your options for a destination to which to print. As you go through the steps described by Bert starting at step 3, print each to "pdf reDirect"... it will open that program and begin a que of files that you want to "print" into a PDF... when you have finished "printing" each file (progress notes, summary, and/or each imported item that is needed in the new "chart") you can then name that file ("patient 1001") and save it as such. PDF reDirect will then combine all those into one pdf file as you named it onto your desktop (You can even set a password for the file... like the patients SS# or other identifier that hopefully only they would know... in case the resulting disk gets into the wrong hands).
If you just printed the chart notes/summary to that file, you would want to combine that with the imported items as Bert describes in step 5 to make one PDF file of the whole chart. Bert mentioned combining using Acrobat. If you still have ScanSnap s510 that I think you mentioned last year, it should have come with Acrobat Standard version 8... which can combine the files as in Bert's step 5 (you would just highlight all the various files, right click on the group, and select "Combine the supported files in Acrobat") to make one PDF.
Set a password for that file with PDF reDirect or Acrobat, and burn it to the disk as Bert describes. Either write on the disk, or include a .txt file on it, giving a hint to the password the patient would know.
Good luck, and let me know if you need a clearer description of the steps, or any other help.
