Home Forums Can I print all Imported Items at once for a single patient ?

When I am refering a patient to a specialist or transfering care, is there a way to print all Imported items for that patient at one time or do I have to do each imported items separately ?

Great question! I wish someone had an answer--I have been frustrated by this as well.

If you open the patient's chart and go to the past encounters tab, and choose "file" from the upper left corner, you will see an option to "print entire chart." You can then fill out "records being released to" (which I highly recommend as an easy way to track for HIPAA), it will then pop up a screen asking what you want printed. From there, you can print the whole chart or portions of it and there is a check-box that says "Imported Items." If you only want imported items, you can uncheck the other parts of the chart and mark the imported items box only. It's a bit cumbersome, but I find it easier than going from imported item to item in the chart.
Amber

There is no way to print the entire Imported Items with a single "print" click. They will all come up as single PDFs which you must then print individually. As I use Paperport, I print to the Paperport Desktop, stack the documents and then fax or print from there. It is an issue many of us have discussed previously which could stand a little more work to simplify.

Well, I am wrong. You can print the entire II as explained by Amber. But, you do not get a choice of printers. Almost never would I need to print to paper any more. I will stick with my old way.

I think you do get a choice of printers, but it opens multiple PDF (if that is the format) documents. I "print" them to PDF redirect which will combine them all into 1.

I will look at it again but when I went the route Amber denoted, I did not get a choice of printer, it just started printing. If you print all imported items from the imported item window, they all come up in separate Adobe (or Word, or Excel) windows and then you can select the printer. At this point I select the Paperport Desktop.

If one has the right PDF software, I happen to have Adobe, then there are other methods. I go right to the folder and combine them and print from there.

I went back and rechecked how we do this.

The reason I don't have the same problem as Leslie is that I PREVIEW, not PRINT. It opens the documents up separately in their native program, then print them to PDF redirect.

I wonder if you set your defaul printer to PDF redirect would it automatically do this? I may play with this next week.

Good job, Wendell!

But, overall, would you want your default printer to be PDF redirect?

OK, I went back and looked at it AGAIN. I did miss the option of previewing rather than printing. So, when they come up in the preview mode, this is where I wold print to the Paperport desktop.

Hi Amber,
Thanks, what you suggested works--one little quirky thing though-if you have letters that in imported items that you want to include with labs you have to check BOTH labs/radiology AND Imported Items that will open in their native programs --but gee, that works and is sooooo much faster than printing them one at time.

I am glad that people are happy with this. I still find it to be pretty cumbersome. If a patient has 25 imported documents, this method gives me 25 windows opening, and each has to be "printed" (to Paperport, Updox, paper, or some pdf program that will combine them).
On the occasions when we need to include all of the II in a large chart that is being sent, I generally advocate dragging all of the document icons to a folder and putting it on a disc.