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Article
The Drive to Point of Care Medical Record Scanning
To reach stage seven of the EMR adoption scale, provide access to the complete patient record when and where physicians need it, and realize the full return on investment for the purchase of an electronic medical record system, a patients chart must be available in a fully electronic format for exemplary patient care. Five challenges of scanning medical records at…
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Article
Bridging the Operational and Technical Workflow Communication Gap
Whether it is the analysis and deficiency process in the HIM department, routing the registration packet through the hospital, or even managing your scanning process, understanding both process and technological components of workflow are vital to productivity in healthcare systems today. Often discussions regarding workflow in the health information management department require interaction between IT…
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Article
Making Your EHR Meaningful – Part II
To make the most of your current or future electronic health record (EHR) investment, implement an electronic document management system (EDMS) to act as a central repository for all electronic and paper data. Electronic document management systems act as a single point of access for scanned medical records and patient information in the EHR, which…
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Article
Making Your EHR Meaningful – Part I
Since 2009, when the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act your healthcare facility has been striving to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology. Meaningful use legislation intends to provide: Better clinical outcomes Improved population health outcomes…
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Webinar
Making Your EHR Operationally Meaningful to HIM
In the race towards meaningful use, many healthcare facilities have embarked on an electronic health record (EHR) implementation. The challenge to making this investment meaningful is creating a fully electronic record. This session will help HIM professionals recognize areas where simple enhancements can be made to achieve the most from an EHR. Learning Points: Learn…
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Case Study
Partnering on the Scanning Process to Focus on More Critical Initiatives
Health First partners with EDCO on their backfile and day forward scanning initiatives.
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Article
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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Article
Leave a Legacy in the HIM Department, Not Paper – Part II
Unconsolidated patient records create some of the biggest challenges for health information management (HIM) professionals because they force HIM departments to hold multiple operational processes to access patient records. Part I of this article reviewed past decisions made by the HIM department that create current and future challenges. By marrying existing legacy records into a…
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Webinar
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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Article
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.
