Bert,
In my eyes, the central advantage to an EHR would be the ability to visualize each physician encounter, by whatever provider, sequentially, so the cardiology visit notes would fall after my last visit, but before the nephrologist if that is how it happened. Currently, all notes from consultants just live in imported items as PDF files, and they lose the critical quality of temporal placement. If I were to be able to copy the text from that note, however, and put it in as an encounter note (or addendum) and label it appropriately, then just by looking at the past encounters that consult would flow in sequence. Is anyone doing that? What is the easiest way to translate a PDF file into text? And, is it at least theoretically possible to export/import from one AC chart into another if the other physician is also using AC?
