High-Speed Scanning Enhances EMR Productivity

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By Ken Congdon, ECM Connection magazine

ARRA (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) incentives are motivating most healthcare facilities today to adopt EMRs (electronic medical records). However, that doesn't change the fact that, since the beginning of medicine, the primary means of recording patient information was on paper. Many healthcare facilities have accumulated vast amounts of paper health records that they must, by law, retain in their native paper formats or convert to electronic documents for a set period of time. Wyoming Medical Center is one such healthcare facility. This 205- bed hospital stored more than 13 million pages of patient files in a 5,000-squarefoot records room located beneath a parking structure on the hospital's campus. This area served as a records room for several years. However, when the parking structure was scheduled for demolition in a mere 18 months, Wyoming Medical Center knew it needed a backup plan. No other space on campus was substantial enough to house the records, and moving the files to an off-site facility was expected to be a costly venture fraught with logistical retrieval issues. As a result, Wyoming Medical Center began to look at document imaging solutions as a means to vacate the storage facility while still preserving the records on-site.

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