As more health care facilities transition to an electronic medical record, many health information management (HIM) professionals ask the question: should our hospital continue maintaining a physical file room? When the file room is eliminated, HIM department resources can often be directed towards more critical HIM initiatives. Additionally, significant cost savings are realized. In this presentation, learn nine reasons why your hospital should eliminate its physical file room.
Learning Points:
- Discover ways to improve efficiencies and reduce risks in the HIM department.
- Realize the hard and soft cost savings of file room elimination (FRE).
- Reallocate file room staff to more critical areas within the HIM department.
- Accomplish your facility’s file room eliminate goals using your existing operating budget.
