Append to PDF product

hi,
does anyone know if Adobe has a product that will append different file formats to a single PDF file when user does a bulk printing to the Adobe PDF instead of creating multiple PDFs and selecting the "from multiple files" to combine them which is not practical if we want to combine thousands of documents !

Since we're on the subject of Portfolios, I suppose I might as well mention my situation-I did try posting this under a separate topic, but have had no responses thus far. The medical practice I'm working with has been using Portfolios, of which I know very little.
I'll start over...they've gone ahead and converted all their medical charts to digital images (PDFs). Each chart is divided into sections, such as Patient Info, Progress Notes, Benefits, Treatment Plan and so forth. Every time a patient comes into the office for an appointment, a new page is added to certain parts of the chart (such as Progress Notes) detailing their last visit. Now that all the charts are electronic, this can be done on a computer. So, for a section like, say, Progress Notes, there's all the old charts organized with the most recent one on top. However, that's not the very first page-the very first page is a blank progress note, ready for the patient's next visit.
All they want to be able to do when they fill out a chart is, after it's saved, have it go on top of the chart (as it's now the most recent page) and have a new blank page appear, ready for the next visit. It's like inserting a blank page, but they don't want to do that-they simply want a new blank page to appear and move to the front on top of the most recent page.
Does this make sense? I really could use some help ASAP!

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