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    Building a Business Case for Records Consolidation – I

    Over time patient records become fragmented due to changes in technology, leadership, processes, and government regulations.  Records are stored in multiple locations, sometimes with multiple vendors, and exist in multiple formats such as microfilm, paper, and electronic files.  This presents many challenges for healthcare facilities.  Coming up with a solution can be difficult, and articulating…

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    MoHIMA 2012 Recap

    As a way to continue supporting the HIM community, EDCO team members often speak at national and State Health Information Management Association (HIMA) annual meetings and conventions.  Last week, ten-year veteran Blake Sawyer, Senior Sales Engineer for EDCO Health Information Solutions, addressed the attendees at the MoHIMA Annual Meeting. This session’s topic was “Making your Electronic Health Record…

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    Why is scanning so hard?

    At a recent regional association meeting, a group of health information management directors were asked, “How many of you operate in a fully electronic environment?”  Surprisingly, the majority raised their hand.  When pressed further with the question “Does that include all inpatient, outpatient, and emergency charts?” hands started to drop and the discussion switched to:…

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    The Big Bang Effect on Paper Records

    The “Big Bang” Effect on Paper Records  In the transition to the electronic medical record (EMR) environment, hospitals are faced with two primary choices for implementation, a phased in or big bang approach. One relevant topic in both situations is what will happen to the remaining paper documentation, and how quickly? Recently, an EDCO® Health…

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    Building a Business Case for File Room Elimination

    Many HIM professionals see the value of file room elimination, but struggle with articulating it for other decision-makers. This brief presentation pinpoints areas to address when building a business case.

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    The Future of Medical Record Scanning

    Scanning in the health information management (HIM) department can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. Staffing challenges, a continual backlog, and delays in downstream processes due to scanning issues certainly can cause a headache; one, in many cases, that feels never ending. These headaches, regulations, and risks have caused many HIM departments to rethink internal…

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    Do Your HIM Scanning Dashboards Measure Up?

    You know what they say; you can’t manage what you don’t measure.  As healthcare facilities become less reliant on paper, more records are processed electronically.  For some HIM leaders, this lack of paper can feel like a lack of control.  Instead of seeing the workload of a staff member by the stack in front of…

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    HIM Process Improvement: Records Consolidation

    Decisions made by past leadership effect your health information management department every day. Similarly, choices made by your HIM department today will have downstream effects. In order for your HIM department to have the best possible long-term and immediate results, align the past and the present by consolidating patient records. Unconsolidated records result from changes…

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    The Effects of Scanning with Intelligent Technology on FTE Count

    By scanning more efficiently, HIM departments can free up full time equivalents’ (FTEs) time to focus on more critical initiatives. Unfortunately, many HIM departments are engaged in scanning processes without clear benchmarks to measure success and make the best use of FTEs. Healthcare facilities using intelligent technology with best practice workflow should average 1.5 FTEs per million images scanned per year.

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    Are Loose Papers Here to Stay?

    For the foreseeable future, loose documents are not going away, but they can certainly be less painful. Hospitals should analyze scanning processes and technology to optimize efficiencies. Look specifically for day forward scanning technology that can utilize information within the document to automatically identify it and assist in indexing.