Initially, I wanted to do the same but my INBOX would get rather full!
The week before (or day before) I would go thru the paper charts and glean the info I needed to enter in the chart. Rather than enter it directly into AC, I created a TEXT file with patient name and DOB as the file name and in this file I re-created headings similar to AC headings (HPI, ROS, Past Med Hx, Surg Hx, Family Hx, Social Hx, Allergies, Medications, etc.) and just typed in free form all that I would want to have added.
On day of the appoitment, I would go to the folder where I kept these summaries, sort the files by last name so that I could find the patient I wanted and if it existed there I would open it and start to copy and paste into AC's different sub-sections.
This way, my INBOX would not be cluttered with these types of charts. I could also type many more things that I could use to remind me to do or to ask the patient on the day of the appointment.......high risk for falls, so ask about rearranging furniture in the home, etc.
