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We scanned our last paper chart yesterday.
Reporting this milestone is a real victory. It only took us 4 months to scan over 2,000 charts.

Now we are "paperless." I still print the lab requisitions everyday, multiple times per day along w/ Rx's.

However, we use MUCH LESS paper, as in $100's per month less (considering copy costs, toner, paper, wear and tear on the Muratec scanner).

Congratulations to me!! Also it's my birthday, so happy birthday to me...35 y/o.

Happy Birthday, Adam!



Many happy returns!

BTW, this is my last thread in the 6 part Blog of a Newbie series. I debated w/ Bert calling this thread Blog of a Newbie. I'm #6 top poster on the boards (not bragging just stating fact) and I've pretty much figured out the ins and outs of AC. I'm going to the ACUC in June. All of our charts are scanned in. No I'm not a Newbie any longer.

The only money it cost me to scan the charts was $400 for a ScanSnap, $125 for added RAM to my Muratec all-in-one scanner/printer/fax/copy. Technically, I used staff time to do all the work. I could put that into dollars, however I'm paying them to be there whether they work or not. There was NO OVERTIME paid in thise endeavor.

But here is staff time: 40hr/wk x 16 wks x $12/hr avg salary = $7,680. Not bad, considering paper storage fees can exceed this over 7-10 years. Plus that freed space has some monetary worth, does it?

Therefore, I am retiring this thread on a positive note. I could be considered an Advanced AC User now.

Thanks Bri,
That's just too cute!

Yeah, Happy Birthday from all of us you bulldozed over to get to #6. It wasn't pretty, but if I were Paul or even Bert, I would be watching my rear view mirror!!

Anyway, what's with the cigs in Brian's birthday greeting?? Is Brian really a pulmonologist, not a ped??

And furthermore, THIRTY-FIVE??? I bet Leslie and I both have bras older than that! Geez...

Those aren't Kent cigarettes, they're my complete Kent McCord video collection. I'm a big Adam-12 fan; what can I say?

http://www.kentmccord.com/archives/adam12/index.html

Adam Lauer! Adam-12! We've come full circle! Joy!!!

Oh dear, (RFLMAO)

Yes, happy belated birthday, Adam.
And Donna, you are right...Even my bunions are older than that.
Oh to be 35 again.

Leslie

Dispatch <female voice>: "Adam-12, Adam-12, 311 in progress, 311 in progress. Please respond."

Kent: "This is Adam-12, go ahead."

Dispatch <femals voice>: "311 in progress on corner of 4th and Birch St. Proceed w/ caution."

Kent: "We are on our way, please send backup. Adam-12, Over and out."

"over and out" I don't remember the radio etiquette being so bad. Maybe it was. (Over="I'm done talking, now I will listen to you" and Out="I'm done talking and I will go do something else, and stop listening now")

Adam 12, (and Dragnet before it) had the full support of LAPD, and Jack Webb as the unabashed cheerleader for the department. It would be many years before the image of the department would sink to it's current low. The behavior of the officers under Chief Parker was probably no better, but Chief Gates promoted a defiant attitude that took two riots and a lot of political change to begin to repair.
Over.

How about "Emergency?" Did you ever watch that show? That was on around the same era in the 70's.

That was AWESOME! I loved "Emergency."

The E.D. surgeon (yes surgeons in those days), always ordered "D5W" and "100mg Lidocaine, IV push" anytime someone was having a heart attack. Beta blockers? What were those? Aspirin for a heart attack, are you kidding?? Heparin? Plavix?

Just imagine, the things we do now that are considered cutting edge and state-of-the-art, will be ancient history in 35 years.

It won't take 35 years. My first ACLS certification had us pushing Calcium Chloride during Asystole. Maybe that was just a simple way to get a firm 'end point' (Stone Heart?).

Guys,
I love this line of thinking and talk. My absolute favorite for this kind of thinking is the Star Trek 4 movie, "The Voyage Home" where they are trying to get the humped back whales back to earth of their own time period.

Remember the scene in the hospital where they are trying to rescue Checkov who had fallen and hit his head and was all messed up with a brain bleed of some sort (Ya you docs probably remember the actual Diagnosis, right? Basic Sub-dural hematoma I believe, did I butcher the spelling enough too?). So as McCoy is going around the hospital he keeps complaining how they are in the "Dark Ages" and working with "Sticks and Stones" and how primative it all is. There was the scene in the elevator where he starts taking on the two docs for their primative methods.

And then when they find Pavel the Neuro guys are talking about releiving the intercranial pressure, so MacCoy starts carrying on about "No man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer, you've got to get in there and repair the actual artery." So they spout back that this all makes sense in theory but how does he propose they actually do so, and so he wipes out his little headpiece device and proceeds to repair the actual bleed.

And that old lady in renial failure who is moaning on a stretcher in the hallwall awaiting dialysis who he gave a simple little pill to and a few moments later she up and about all happy and well.

That has got to be one of the best Treks of all time. All the "Sticks and Stones" like references in it. I just love that movie... And it speaks so well to what the two of you are getting at here. Transparent Aluminum....

My uncle was a very early adopter on computers as a college professor, in the English dept of CUNY, Queens College, Got a lot of recognition for all of that back then. Uncle Joe likes to remind us that even as early as the seventies although we all sort of knew computers were going to be increasingly important and so it was important to know and use them, adopt them, that even then, nobody really saw the micro-processor coming that would eventually lead to all of these multiple strong little PC's on everybody's desk no less a few of them in most homes. It is simply "Amazing".....

Hey Adam not sure so perhaps I'll try it myself, but do a google search of this one. Since you are probably too young to remember, because even as someone almost 12 years older than you, I can barely remember, "It's a Big World for Little Atom (Adam)".

"Big world, little atom, big world, little atom, It's Big World for Little Atom".... That was the theme music, back when all good shows had to have a truely great theme. It was so early in my childhood, that I am not even 100% sure if it was Atom or Adam anymore. But I think it was Atom and so most kids named Adam would get teased with it once in awhile.

But hey, my wife insisted on the name Adam for our son, so I'm sticking with it. And I like to remind him that one of the greatest, most loyal to his teammates and constantly giving to his adopted home of NYC, is Stanley Cup Champion, number 9, Adam Graves. He skated with "Mess" (Messier) as his left wing willing to pay any price in the corners or in front of the net to get a goal. FYI, they are retiring his number up to the rafters this coming season to join his better know teammates from that glorious run for the cup. I think my kid is going to try and wear number 9 whenever possible now....

It's a big world.....

Golly,
I even remember back in the '70's when HCTZ (or similar diuretics) were first tier in the 4-tier treatment protocol for HTN!! Hey, wait a minute...aren't they again recommended for that? Stick around long enough and a lot of the "old stuff" will make a comeback.

Leslie

Hey I thought we already learned that managed care doesn't. Ya just doesn't; Because it doesn't really manage and it doesn't really work. But these bozos keep trying to find new or old interesting ways to make good paying work for themselves and their friends inside their side of this business while also finding ways to take healthcare dollars and channel them away from folks like yourselves that do the work and instead re-route such funds back to themselves...

Hey: "What's Old is New Again".