I am in the process of scanning my old charts and saving them as PDFs. The staff has done over 1,000 2 to 3 inch volumes already (as PDF's about 20 MB a chart), so I have 20 GB at least. A big hard drive is less expensive than a single month renting a store room, so not to worry.
To see some info I presented to a group of local docs, see the topic "Scanning & disposition of paper charts" on this website:http://scmsociety.typepad.com/information_technology/emr_conf/index.html
John
