Why would you bother printing all the "imported items"?
Nowdays, a huge amount of that is bloat and useless garbage.
All I would want to send with a chart to someone else would be a few recent labs and imaging reports, and probably some consultant reports.

Does your doctor really want all the INR reports for the last 5 years?
Or all the copies of correspondence with insurance clerks about prior authorizations?
Or ER and Urgent Care visits for stubbed toes and earaches -- with each report taking 15 pages to document?

Of course, what we often get from other practices is a xerox copy of all that and more-- half a ream of paper which the clerks dutifully scan in, and would then be something that would be passed on to the next practice in your scenario.


Tom Duncan
Family Practice
Astoria OR