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Naviant boosts productivity on its document conversion jobs by as much as 87 percent with the OPEX Falcon® document scanning workstation.

Throughout time people have been looking for ways to gather information. The invention of the printing press allowed large scale production of documents and printing of the earliest forms. Until the 1980’s information collected from forms was tabulated by hand or manually entered into a computer.

It’s been seven years since ECM Connection (then Integrated Solutions magazine) last spoke with Vickie Torregrossa, Director of Information Systems for Food For The Poor. Back in 2006, Torregrossa and her team had implemented a document imaging and remittance processing system that allowed the international organization to create digital images of donation checks and digitally transmit them to its bank.

Valley Health is a nonprofit organization providing healthcare to people in and around an area known as the Top of Virginia, as well as parts of West Virginia and Maryland. Valley Health operates six hospitals in the geographic area, providing nearly 600 inpatient beds and more than 100 long term care beds. On a yearly basis, Valley Health averages more than 30,000 inpatient admissions and more than 140,000 emergency room visits, with total outpatient encounters numbered around 800,000. The organization employs more than 5,000 people and has a medical staff of more than 500 professionals.

Scan anything, anywhere, any time. That is the dream for many people, and today’s technology is making that a reality. Using a camera such as those on smartphones to capture information provides flexibility and can do things that a traditional scanner cannot.

If you were the largest Property and Casualty insurer in your state with over 170 agent offices and 15 claim locations and needed to automate your paper-based claims process, how would you go about doing it? “Good question,” you say? Well, here’s one good answer.

Digitizing patient information residing on hardcopy to integrate it into electronic medical records (EMR) is helping to pave the path to more efficient delivery of healthcare in the United States. Physician practices, health management organizations, neighborhood clinics, urgent care facilities and hospitals are moving along the spectrum to meet electronic medical records adoption goals set forth by both by government regulation and healthcare industry expectations. 

Founded in 1939 as Biel’s Photocopy Service, Biel’s Document Management is the oldest imaging services provider in the U.S. Through their work as a service bureau and also as a value-added reseller (VAR) of scanning hardware and software, they deliver innovative document management solutions that enable companies to scan, store, retrieve, and use information more efficiently, accurately, and securely.

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership is using three ibml ImageTrac-Lite scanners to process in excess of 30 million pages a year, including prescriptions and various other health related documentation.

On June 6, 2016, Riverside County District Attorney, Michael Hestrin, announced that seven people were indicted for insurance fraud and conspiracy for one of the largest workers’ compensation (healthcare) fraud investigations in the County. In two separate but related grand jury indictments, a result of a joint investigation by the Riverside County District Attorney's Office and the California Department of Insurance, $98 million was fraudulently billed, resulting in $12.4 million being paid by 18 insurance companies allegedly defrauded in this scheme. But that was no easy feat until smartC™ was introduced as one of the tools to help the prosecution.

From one-office concerns to those spanning multiple locations, staffing placement service providers and Human Resources departments face challenges in centralizing information, providing timely and accurate reviews of employment forms, and eliminating file cabinets of paper-based applications and on-boarding materials. 

More than 26,000 Kodak ScanMate i940 Scanners are now enabling faster, more transparent, and more accurate transactions to the delight of customers.