The items are there for 6 months, but have you ever tried to search updox? Nightmare.
Knock on wood, have never been sued, but the old addage, "if it's not in the chart, it wasn't done"
I guess what it needs is an option to save the correspondence to the chart at the same time.
What I have ended up doing is copying my note at the bottom of the labs to the note in updox-which means I might as well go ahead and it myself.

I guess I could write "copy of this being sent to patient by secure portal". Wouldn't stand up in court if you couldn't prove you sent it.


Vicki Roberts, MD
Family Medicine of Southeast Missouri
Sikeston, MO