What will usually happen when a phyaician dies, is that the staff/office manager will literally give the entire chart to the patient, who then has the responsibility to find a new doctor and take their chart w/ them.
In the same manner, the AC records/.PDF Import Itmes files can be either emailed, faxed or burned to CD's and given to patients.
I must disagree with Leslie's idea. Burying your recordsw/ the physician is not the best means of preserving the integrity of your records. Rather, I would prefer burying them on a uncharted paradise island in the Caribbean. Create a treasure map and pass this out to your patients. If you really want to screw the up the patients who are delinquent in their bills, give them a treasure map that leads to a billing statement. Attach to that a note saying, "Pay up your bill, then we'll give you the correct coordinates of your records."
Thanks for the inspiration! I think I'm going to leave these instructions for my staff in my will
