I am employing my teenagers in scanning old paper charts to get it done, and to teach them that education will lead to work that is not so mind-numbingly repetitive.
What is the difference in court between a pdf scanned from a patient I last saw in 2007 and a pdf from a chart note made in 2012? Unless there is suspicion to suggest altering of the pdf, I don't see the court system wanting to have everything clogged up arguing over altered pdfs.
Retaining a personal pdf image of every document generated going forward seems just as good as keeping pdfs of all my old paper records which will be shredded eventually, and probably before a court case needs them.
I assumed that AC's position was to prevent stealing the software. I would like to manipulate the text for a fancier looking progress note, and I would like to eventually have access to all the data in a queriable table.
Eventually, won't there be a seamless transfer from emr to emr, cause at a basic level we want to know the subjective, objective, assessment and plans.
What am I missing here?
