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Can a provider leave the practice and take her patients in her AC with her?

Bill,

It sounds like three questions (at least) in there.

The first is how the relationship is resolved, and the logistics of that.

As to extracting a set of patients and placing them into a new AC database, that can be done and we (and some others) could assist you with that if that is the path that is chosen.

The third question would be how those charts are notated so that it is cleaar which patients left the practice.

Thanks,

It is fairly simple on the surface. NP with own caseload, listed as a provider for her clients. She is joining a public agency and wishes to keep her charts so a few she can continue to see, but mainly for records requests etc. So, there is no overlap with her client's and mine.

There are a couple of ways to do this.

I'm sure Indy could separate the database, but then how would the licensure work for AC? Would she have to buy her own copy? While she was under a provider license, using an entire copy of the program, when it is still being used by the original practice would perhaps warrant purchasing another practice copy. This would have to be cleared with AC, I could see them doing this a number of ways. I do realize that she is using it for archival purposes, hopefully so will they and come up with a solution.

Another option would be to print copies of all the records to PDF and she takes a disk with the PDFs with her. Time consuming, yes, depending on the number of patients, but perhaps not more so than splitting the database. Easy to access, easy to print off a copy either digitally or paper, and it does not take a lot of space. This would also leave a notation in the chart that the records were "released" to her.