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AdvancedMDIntake forms before an athenahealth visit
A previsit intake checklist for athenahealth practices: what to collect by phone, which forms to send, who owns each step, and the lobby fallback.
Guides for practices that live in their EHR
Working notes on intake, faxing, and documentation, written from what we see in the offices we support. Useful before you ever book a demo.
September, 2026 
Choosing intake software for your EHR
A buyer's scorecard for patient intake software: how paper, PDFs, form builders, portals and chart-writing forms differ, and what to make a vendor show live.
AI fax sorting: what it actually does
AI fax sorting is four separate capabilities: classification, patient matching, splitting and routing. What each does, where it fails, and how to pilot it.
AI scribes and chart context
What changes when an AI scribe can see the chart's diagnoses, medications and allergies, where stale data bites, and what write-back means per EHR.
Filing incoming faxes in Practice Fusion
How incoming faxes get into a Practice Fusion chart, why the download-and-upload path is the problem, and one referral walked from arrival to chart.
Running a high-volume medical fax inbox
A fax process for multi-provider practices: fax machine versus eFax, keeping faxes off staff computers, virtual inboxes, and a triage table you can adopt.
Cutting intake data entry in Practice Fusion
Where intake retyping happens in Practice Fusion, why minimum-by-phone plus forms beats a full phone intake, and how paper, PDFs and chart forms compare.