We use a brother multifunction fax and are printing close to nothing now. I write my referal letters and save them. I tell my MA they are done and he faxes them without printing any hard copies. Labs are put imported into the patients chart without printing. I am sending many scripts electronically without printing. The only thing I am still printing are orders for labs and xrays that the patient carries to the hospital to have done. I did not scan in my patients old charts. I mined the data the night before I saw the patient. I carry the old record into the exam room in case I want to look for something from the past that isn't clearly looking at me in the electronic chart. I don't even open it most of the time. The last thing we did was stop printing a duplicate of order and we are now using the tickler file in V5. If I write a letter to a patient I send it snail mail so I print that. We are pretty paperless. Staples is very disappointed in us.
