Case Study
Getting Out From Under 36 Years of Paper Charts with AllergyEHR
Case Study: Michael LeNoir, MD The Situation: A Daunting Task of Managing 36 Y ears of Paper Patient Charts Thirty-six years of providing care to allergy patients is an amazing tenure; tracking thirty-six years of paper charts for all of those patients is downright scary. That’s the situation Dr. Michael LeNoir, who specializes in Allergy and Immunology in the Oakland, California area, found himself in. Dr. LeNoir has two offices and over the past three-plus decades, he has established a reputation as an allergy expert, as well as a respected pediatrician, with a special interest in asthma management. Over the years, as his patient volume grew, Dr. LeNoir and his staff needed a way to transition from tremendous amounts of paper charts to electronic records for encounter docume