Bill,

Just to offer you some moral support, I too am still using paper AND AC. After 20 years in practice it has been very difficult for me to make the change to a totally paperless office. In fact, the main reason I even started using an EMR 8 years ago was to cut down on transcription costs and still be able to have a legible note. I still print out my encounters and do not scan in anything (except insurance cards into my PM program). I still love AC and find it to be very useful even if I am only using a part of it. I have waivered back and forth about going ahead and making the leap to totally paperless but, at my stage of the game, I am not sure it will be worth the time and effort. But, that is still under consideration.

I think you would learn a lot about AC at the conference and suspect you would find a way to mold it to your own practice style. This user board is terrific for coming up with "work-a-rounds" to help in just that way.

Anyway, hope that helps.

A fellow tyrannosaur

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "