Doctor Mel,
We are doing the task now, because we weren't originally going to do it. The effort wasn't worth the money. But we learned this year that there will penalties in the future for not doing it. So we figured we'd like to avoid the penalties, and since we're going to do it to avoid the penalties, we should try to get some money from the government now.
No, I don't print the clinical summary via patient letter. We find it too time consuming, and to count for MU the CCD has to be attached. We simply print the CCD at the end of the day, to a null printer. We have a notice at our front desk, notifying patients that if they want a clinical summary of that day's visit to let us know and one will be made available to them within 48 working hours. So far, no one has taken us up on the offer. We do have patients who want the electronic access, and for that we send the CCD to the Updox Patient Portal. We are also using the CCD to sent all data to other specialists when we refer a patient.
For now, we just make sure that anything we want to be included in the CCD into the assessment box.
