HadIt.com Elder Buck52 Posted July 25, 2016 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted July 25, 2016 I got my C-File in Today and its a CD...Now I can look at what I need to know, this makes it sooooo much easier than going through thousand & thousands of paper sheets trying to find things, Now if I can find what I need??... (hopefully) 13 months it took so guess thats not to bad. ............................Buck EODCMC, Andyman73 and 63Charlie 3 I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Inarticulate&Distorted Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Eeeh, i want paper, you always wanna be sure "Friday Filing" hasn't affected your CFile. JMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Moderator broncovet Posted July 26, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 26, 2016 The CD works great especially if you have a long medical record. Mine is a couple thousand pages. Its easier to search. I got my last cfile on CDROM, too. Reccomended: Make yourself an "index". It will take some time but save you time later. My cfile was "NOT" in date order, or in any other logical progression. Here is a little sample of what I call the "RBA (or cfile) index". RBA INdex: RBA pages 1-56 BVA decision 2012. Page 57. VARO decision date... (Its your index, so you can put things like, "denied IU", or something to help you remember what this decision was about). P. 96. VAMC health records, 1 June 04- May 08 P. 128 C and P exam for tdiu etc, etc. You can use "color codes" for your index, if you like. For example, I put C and P exams in green. RO denials in Red. (Green means money). EODCMC, FLTMEDOPS and Inarticulate&Distorted 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HadIt.com Elder Buck52 Posted July 26, 2016 Author HadIt.com Elder Share Posted July 26, 2016 Great Ideal broncovet, I sure do this. make it a lot eazier to look for things. I have not put it in my computer just yet, but will work on it tonight. AS for as having in Paper I guess its just a prefered preference , I like mine in CD-ROM a lot better , After I get it ''organized ... all you need to do is just print out what you need, and not have papers sheets string out all over the living room floor for the pets to play with and mess up eh! I'll make a back-up disk also. Thanks broncovet. EODCMC 1 I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 armorer Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Better yet, put it in an excel spread sheet so you can copy and paste. I've got about 20 fields per record, but most are cut and copy grouped together, but all the fields are nice to have. My first time with a baby 470 page one took about a week and a half getting used to it and all. But now, I have a learning curve, and can cut and copy locations, addresses, phone numbers, quicker now. A good bit of records are fluff bs, but sometimes, there will be a lot of condensed records together so the excel ss helps you keep tabs of things without falling asleep. I can find anything, and have mine also printed out with every other page numbered. It really helps using the relational database design (based on page number, but it would take about 4 or 5 fields, with versions, to make a real record identifier for the VA, if they were smart, lol. I'm going to do the same thing for my MyHeatheVet records. And then you can group them according to your claims at the bottom because claims is a field in your db records. If you have Win 7 Pro OS, get Office 2010 business for the best bang for buck if you can find it on ebay/amazon (it's not easy for a good price.) imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HadIt.com Elder Buck52 Posted July 26, 2016 Author HadIt.com Elder Share Posted July 26, 2016 BRONCOVET Instead of making an INDEX/RBA I made the C-FILE CD Search-Able to OCR (Optical Character Recognition) It's easier for me when trying to find something in my C-FILE. I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rootbeer22 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Vets: Thanks for all of the recommendations as I'm excited because I was notified that my C-File is on the way also.. There is also a company Tableau in Seattle, WA that has a special software like excel spreadsheet but it's like excel on steroids. I'm going to see what I can do with that. Buck52, I thought that the Cds came searchable...if not how did you set yours up to be OCR? Rootbeer22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I got my C-File in Today and its a CD...Now I can look at what I need to know, this makes it sooooo much easier than going through thousand & thousands of paper sheets trying to find things, Now if I can find what I need??... (hopefully)
13 months it took so guess thats not to bad.
............................Buck
I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!!
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I got my C-File in Today and its a CD...Now I can look at what I need to know, this makes it sooooo much easier than going through thousand & thousands of paper sheets trying to find things, No
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The CD works great especially if you have a long medical record. Mine is a couple thousand pages. Its easier to search. I got my last cfile on CDROM, too. Reccomended: Make yourself an "index
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That should work I contacted a MANAGER from RPC in St Louis & she check the status of my C-File and emailed me back and put a end Of July Early Aug 2016 Date to receive it. which I shoul
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