This is a little off topic but still in the same vein. As I am in the process of closing my office I am getting records copied for patients. My initial plan was to fax them to the patient's new doctors but, some were 400 pages and, even those much smaller took up way too much time to fax...tied up our machine and the machines on the other end. Actually had an office call us and chew us out for faxing it.
Then thought about UPDOX but, without the docs on the other end having it, and the learning time required by my staff, I did not think it would work smoothly.
Thought about printing to paper and mailing....time-consuming and my printers are on their last legs.
So, decided to burn to CDs. We print to Paperport desktop, bundle the documents there and then burn to CD. Luckily I have 4 computers with CD burners. This is much faster than printing to paper. This seems to be working well....not real cheap but manageable.
We then have the patient come in and pick up their disk and take it wherever they want. Now, here is a funny....had a patient bring their disk back and told us their new doctor could not accept this format because they did not have the means to read it!!!!! HUH??? In 2013, in the land of Obamacare, an office whose docs are younger than I does not have a computer which will read a CD full of PDFs? I told the patient they should go back to that office and tell them that was the only format they were getting and, as they apparently were taking on a boat load of my patients, and because this format is the ultimate in Obama's patient portability in health care scheme, they should find a way to read the CD or I would steer my patients away from their antiquated office. No other patients have returned with their CDs.
