"I was planning to import these scanned files into Amazing Charts, but now I'm not sure I want to."
This is one of the reasons why in our office we are still using paper charts, printing our notes and filing the documents in the physical chart.
Seems you have already decided of how to scan your documents though.
It will be interesting is AC users will elaborate in the way they handle documents. The "flow of the document" is important, in this sense, every practitioner has a different style.
In my opinion, one could do it probably in 2 ways:
1. Do all the, flow of the document in paper and then scanned to imported Items. Some of us would find this way faster. You take the paper read it, write some notes and instructions and then pass it to the staff for patient notification if need it.
2. you can decide to scan every single document which need to be filed and then do all the flow. In this option you most likely will need a third party software. I have read in prior posts succesful implementation with paperport (nuance.com). Other options I heard are Updox.com.
Any good experiences with paperport or updox will be appreciated.