Bert,
No, I don't expect AC to have an actual CD burner but I would like a simpler output option. As it is now, you need to go through multiple steps to export an entire chart to disk and this is not a streamlined process like I would expect. If you choose to export imported items with the chart then each individual item pops up in its own window and needs to be hand exported to the disk. There is no option of just choosing a patient and saving. This is the "easiest" way I have found to do it:
Step 1: Open Chart (highlighting and choosing "print formal health record" doesn't give you the entire chart)
Step 2: Go to "Past Encounters" Tab
Step 3: Go to "File" then "Print Entire Chart"
Step 4: Fill out records release info (or skip)
Step 5: Check mark "Imported Items"
Step 6: This may be the change listed above? You can't just choose "print" or it goes to the default printer so I choose to preview...maybe their file writer program is the "default printer"
Step 7: Each document or set of documents pops up in its own window. For the test patient I am using while I write this, it was 19 windows and we've had our EMR for less than 1 year (what will it be in 5 years???).
Step 8: Save or export each file to disk as works for that file type (Pdf is save as, AC notes are export, excel file is save as, ect.) Since I have to hand touch each one anyway, I choose a file name that fits the document making it more usable otherwise it saves as a random file name
Step 9: Repeat for each of the remaining 18 documents
Step 10: Burn to disk
This seems like an awful lot of steps just to get the information from our EMR program to a disk, not to mention that one of those steps would be repeated as many times as are documents and someday that could be in the hundreds.
I contacted Angel support and went through the steps with them and they admitted they had no better way.
Anyway, I am just trying to find a more efficient way and was trying to see how, specifically, the pdf programs were improving that process.
Thanks for your help Bert am hoping you have the light at the end of the tunnel on this one.
Amber
