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Scan Patient Records — Stat
July 21, 2009
•Guest Column: Scan Patient Records — Stat
By Ken Congdon, Integrated Solutions magazine
Time is of the essence on most IT projects, but some deadlines are more extreme than others. For example, imagine that you have millions of business records stored in a facility that will soon be demolished and you must digitize all of the documents in a hurry or lose them forever. How would you handle that pressure? Well, this hypothetical scenario was all too real for Wyoming Medical Center (WMC), and it responded by investing in a new high-speed document scanning solution.
DATED SCANNING HARDWARE IMPEDES PRODUCTIVITY
WMC is a regional 205-bed hospital and level II trauma center. The hospital stored 13 million pages
of patient files in a records room located directly under a parking garage that was slated for
destruction in 18 months as part of a new building project. No other space at WMC was substantial
enough to support the physical documents, so the hospital decided that imaging the files was the
best way to vacate the storage facility while preserving the documents.
•Guest Column: Scan Patient Records — Stat
Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine.
