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By Libby Bucsi, EMC Corporation

Many healthcare organizations are struggling with growing amounts of information. Often access to the information is limited, either because it's in paper format (and thus not easily shared), or because it's "hidden" on a departmental document imaging or file system. Much of the information used by healthcare workers—up to 80 percent of it—is "unstructured"; that is, it's not easily stored in a traditional database system and therefore it's not available for use in existing database-driven systems for clinics, financials, or operations. Partially as a result of that, information sources are proliferating which complicates retention policies, legal discovery requests, and the ability to meet regulatory requirements.

Successfully managing healthcare information, whether clinical, financial, or operational, is a critical part of providing quality care, increasing clinician satisfaction, improving operational efficiencies, and complying with regulatory mandates. For these reasons, more healthcare organizations are turning to enterprise content management and business process solutions to meet their patient treatment and billing information processes.

An enterprise content management solution unifies the elements of content, process, and compliance into a single platform. Enterprise content management allows incoming and existing information to be delivered directly to the existing systems and individuals required to process tasks, while versioning, archiving, and retention policies are automatically enforced by pre-configured business rules. Using this solution, healthcare organizations can act on patient information quickly and more efficiently to make more informed care decisions.

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