One quick suggestion. We simply entered patients or families of patients on the first visit after our start date. That also saved the the issue of adding a few folks who sort of "used us" because we were a new practice. They sort of just came and went after a few visits. Either they were deductable skippers (use the new doc in town at the begining of the year to hit your deductable, and then never show up after the first visit or two, nice right?) or doc hoppers and the like and they didn't need a chart in our new system. That way we simply entered them as we went and they returned. We never had too many patients to enter on any given day. It didn't take too long to have most of our regulars in the new system. Now if you and your staff can move faster and get more in then more power to ya. But that was the way we did it.
Oh and I guess I'm a little sorry for "jacking your thread" with the Quest Lab stuff, but seeing that it was also first time encounter like stuff I thought it sort of fit. Keep up the great work and glad AC is working so well for you and your practice.
Paul
