Sky,
1.
Here is the link to the version changes in 6. By the way, the list is long but worth a viewing, IMHO, by V6 users. Here are a couple little examples that surprised me:
- Added ability to merge 2 patients into a single patient
- Added ability to completely configure decision support rules[HM], including by: medication, diagnosis name, diagnosis code, gender, and/or lab name and value
- Improve keyboard tabbing through demographics
- Can now enter Resolved and Inactive diagnoses with prior dates
- Can import Practice Documents into patient's imported items
- Added ability to Delete and Modify orders
- Can print encounters by date range
- And my personal fave, "corrected issue where Alka-Seltzer can have an interaction with itself"
2. Do NOT forget your own rights in these audits! You may very well be contractually required to provide the charts, and if so, you should do so. But for starters, you are probably NOT required to provide them for free. Charge your usual record fee, which of course for a 300 page chart could be substantial. Do you REALLY need to print all of the imported items? You may simply be required to provide copies of your own notes; remember, they are not providing care for the patient, just auditing your notes.
3. As Steven and Indy point out, use Updox or a free pdf printer to print the past encounters to a folder to be placed on a disk. If you are going to include imported items, it is often easier to navigate to the II folder on your server and simply drag and drop the patient's II folder (put it in the same folder where you just put the encounter pdf). This is especially faster if the patient has a lot of imported items. In this situation, I would not take the time to combine them all into one pdf; let the insurance functionaries go through the patient's chart and open each pdf, one at a time to read them. That is, unless you have a warm, fuzzy feeling for the insurance company and want to go the extra mile to make their life easy, like they have done for you over the years.
