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I am contemplating starting Amazing Charts in my practice. I cannot change the medical record number when starting a new patient. Can someone indicate how this can be done? Because my existing patients already have medical record numbers.
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I am not familiar with Version 5 but in the previous versions, it cannot be done. This was a problem for me as well.
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. "
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There is no way to alter the med rec numbers, and they are sequential.
You do have miscellanous tabs that could be used as the old medical record number for tracking.
Wendell
Pediatrician in Chicago
The patient's expectation is that you have all the answers, sometimes they just don't like the answer you have for them
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This just came up in our office as well. 3 years of active use of Amazing charts and we may acquire the practice of a local Dr. who is retiring. So the subject of what to do with his records. We currently have Two places to look for a patient. #1 is Amazing Charts. #2 is the old billing system we used, prior to 2007 and by whose numbers we labeled inactive charts as we scanned them into "Capture Perfect" the software for our scanning of old records.
Problem is that we have only a limited number of machines licensed to use the old billing system, and without the #, you can't find the chart. We didn't put inactive names into Amazing Charts because we were afraid of slowing the old Access data base down.
My thinking is that now we can really handle a nearly limitless number of "new" patients, especially when all AC needs is the demographic. That would allow us to assign a number and then store it in "Capture Perfect" with only 1 (2 counting our own really old charts) naming system.
THE BENEFIT would be that our data base expands with the names and addresses and birthdays of these inactive patients. Yes 90% might be moved, expired or otherwise lost to contact. But the remainder would be in our system and would be on our list for a little reminder card during open enrollment, especially just before they turn 65!
Am I missing an obvious problem with this?
Martin T. Sechrist, D.O.
Striving for the "Outcome Oriented Medical Record".
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You mentioned on today's post that you have seen version 5. Do you think that the medical record number issue is addressed in this version? If so can you mentioned that on this thread please?
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Version 5 has the same limitations on medical record numbering.
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