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How Does Document Scanning and Digital Archiving for a Medical Practice, Doctor’s Office or Hospital?
It is rare that a single technology can reduce expenses, help deliver better care, decrease the timepatients spend in hospitals, and save time and money for medical professionals and doctors practices. Outsourcing your document scanning service and digital document archiving does all this and more. Imaging paper documents to electronic images not only offers the benefits mentioned above, but using a scanning service can also improve a healthcare facility’s workflow and help change the way it does business and interacts with its patients.
Having medical records and medical office documents on electronic media or network server, can make storage and retrieval of information easier, providing significant advantages over using the paper or physical versions. Immediate access to documents can help your medical practice, doctor’s office or hospital reduce costs by improving efficiency. Retrieving information electronically enables staff members to reclaim time for more important duties rather than searching through closets, boxes, folders, and hundreds of physical document pages.
Instead, retrieval is accomplished from any computer with an internet connection The scanned pages are instantly available for viewing, printing, faxing or emailing without using additional paper.
Consider the following statistics:
- Most documents are copied 19 times
- 35% of a workers time is wasted searching for documents
- 10% of all documents get lost or misfiled
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EHR Government Stimulus
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) recently was authorized by the federal government to spend more than $19 Billion dollars to develop and implement EHR (electronic health records) and related security solutions.
This health information act will qualify users to receive substantial financial reimbursements if EHR solutions are aquired and implemented prior to the year 2011. Physicians can qualify for reimbursements of $44,000 - $64,000 and hospitals of $3-$11 million over a five year period starting in 2011.
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The government has yet to establish EHR standards which will determine which ehr systems will qualify for reimbursements. To further complicate the issue, users are expected to aquire and implement solutions in 2009 and 2010 to qualify for maximum credit reimbursements.
Lastly, if an EHR solution is not implemented by 2014, not only will you be unable to collect reimbursement, but you will be subject to financial penalties. |
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