Actually, I have a completely Different and somewhat Unique Solution to this Imported Item problem.... We simply have been using Bert's FAP; File Assist Pro for at least 3 if not possibly even 4 years now. FAP is pretty darn Fast and much faster than AC, and now our charts are not clogged with most of that death march to open stuff. We do make use of one main lab interface to download and make immediate data out of the Values which of course is the nice modern, helps you see trends and the like thing.
But 9 out of 10 things we have coming in from outside the office via fax or mail is simply scanned into FAP!!! It's Great and my Doc, Nancy Loves FAP. Leslie I thought you went FAP a good many years ago, not too long after Us? Am I mistaken?
I have done some old write-ups on our experience with FAP and while Bert has kept it working smoothly with AC as AC changes and grows, and in general software changes and grows, it still works and looks the same and is a wonderful solution to this problem.
Lastly, FAP Allows you to literally have TWO sections of the Chart Open at the Same Time now.... You don't have to leave your previous note you were reading and confering with the old specialist letter or Image Report. You don't have to leave the Rx window or the Note you are presently writing just to look at some new or old imported items. Now you can read the PFD created in FAP, Named and Dated very well I might add... Patient's full name as entered in AC and dated the date you scan it into the system, and that is that particular item's name, it the time, date and patient's name, so no concern of Orphan Items one day either.
So read the specialist notes, reveiw a report check their insurance card, up to 20 types of catagories that YOU Get to Name Yourself when you set-up FAP to fit your practice, style and needs. I hope you can see that FAP is a wonderful adjuct program to work right along side with AC that offers all of these work flow and data, systems benefits.
Try it, you'll like it....
Paul
