Wow, five people and five different ways.
That's what makes this board great. I won't let my staff enter them in until they get here. We have some software that Ed made to import the demographics from eMedware. (I know, everyone's sick of the softwar -- it's just that I say to Ed, damn I wish I could do 1, 2, or 3. Then he builds it over night. Of course, it's alpha).
Now one thing, dr Hoffman didn't mention (I think), was whether he already has patients already in some other software such as EMR or billing program. If you can get it into .csv or some type of universal format, you can import it fairly easily into the demographics in seconds. And, it's key to do it right off, because if you screw it up, you simply start over. If you have 3,000 patients exported into a .csv or txt or whatever, but you have already entered 100 by hand along with notes, etc., it will be a bit scarier process, although you can always back up the database. Adam did this and imported over 2000 patients in about thirty seconds.
