LOL. Martin, It took me a year to get Alice to stop wanting to print her encounter note and put it in a paper chart.
I am 4 + years in and still using a paper chart:^)
I was leaving a large group and probably with about a month of lead time to get AC up and running when we made the conversion.
Bought the computers and fax machine and were up and running. Luckily the group had been using a computerized schedule and so that conversion was fairly easy. I had also been using Patient Ed (still do) software to help document and prescribe from an office computer so putting the AC was not a big step.
But I still like having the paper chart when I am seeing patients in the exam room. So I print out the encounters and put them in the paper chart along with the labs and other reports which also gets imported into AC.
Yes it is double entry and some day I may give up my paper chart, but at this point I think it is less intrusive when I am seeing the patients and often things are easier to find in the paper chart than in AC, conversely at times it is easier to track down info on the chart.
Prescriptions are done in AC (and Patient Ed)and now using e-prescribing to help simplify life. Refills are all done in AC.
Greg
