Metrics & dashboards

Home » Resource Hub » Metrics & dashboards
  • Item

    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:…

  • Item

    Article

    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…

  • Item

    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…

  • Item

    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.

  • Item

    Article

    Scanning in the HIM Department

    If you put all the questions about scanning medical records into one bucket, few managers would ask the most important question: Why do you do the things you do?  Reevaluating scanning processes, setting benchmarks, and analyzing real time measurements give health information management (HIM) department’s very valuable insights into the scanning process. If you aren’t…