JMayer,
Welcome to A.C.!! YOu've joined an elite class of foward thinking physicians and physician-extenders. Congratulations. I hope you find the message boards helpful and insightful. I've learned many tips and shortcuts here.
I started converting from paper to A.C. Jan 21st, 2008, and I have just over 2,000 patients (I'm solo F.P.). About 30-40% of our paper-sharts are scanned into A.C. However, we have more than half of the TOTAL estimated pieces of paper scanned in. All of our thickest charts are complete, we are scanning as the patients come in. So our frequent flyers and most of our chronically ill patients are scanned.
I am currently using 3.5 GB on my server's hard drive for the entire AC folder. Therefore I estimate we'll use about 7GB by the time all of said and done. From that point forward, the total size will grow much less rapidly.
One other user and I were talking about backups, and he's been using AC for several years. He stores all reports and incoming data using the Imort Items tab. His total folder size is just over 8GB.
Don't worry about eating up all of your drive space w/ A.C. By the time you could possibly do so, your server and all of your computer equipment will be out of date. In fact you probably will have replaced all of your computer equipment several times over.
What's your name, so that we may welcome you officially?
