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Hi Melanie,

As you can see, I truly enjoy helping when I can. Unfortunately, our system involves only the importation of labs, x-rays, H & Ps, etc. into a program we made. I can give you some direction, but people like Jon (JBS) could help you more.

Yes, any paper that you want in a patient's chart would need to be scanned in. But, your goal should be doing everything possible to have all "paper" (documents) come in as PDF or other electronic files. The PDF is the de facto application. So, any document faxed to you should come in to a central computer via a fax server (pretty much any fax/computer combo that allows the fax to come in as a fax. Some people use Brother fax machines which will bring the document in as a tiff which can then be converted using special software to a PDF. Finally, maybe your best route is using UpDox where all your documets come there and you mark them up anyway you wish. See JBS about that.

As far as sticky notes, there are literally hundreds of free PDF software mainly for printing to PDF. I can't speak for all of them, but Adobe (which invented the PDF and is Acrobat, while overpriced) can still do more to a file than any other PDF document software. After all, we are talking $395 or more vs $00.00. But, you do get two licenses. Adobe allows you to do many, many things to a document, one of which is the yellow sticky, an electronic sticky note that is date and time stamped with the user's name on it.

It seems as though you said the same thing twice in the last question, but 1) I don't do searches on that, so I probably couldn't help you. I do about one search every two weeks and seem to get by. I guess that's the hard part about starting with AC after it gets more efficient. It's hard to know what you can and can't live with.