excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Insurance records management earns million... Summary: By Kim Ann Zimmermann HealthTrust (Nashville, TN) is a document management consulting firm that, among other things, works for hospitals that want to be sure their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement requests are coded properly. "We felt there had to be a way to centralize the process while having the documents remain at the hospital," she says. The documents are scanned and coded elec... 93% Cox Health improves records access Reallocatin... Summary: Cox Health improves records access. While centralizing records was the goal, there were some concerns about security. "This is where there was the most immediate need for quick access to patient records," Nelson says. Only those needing immediate access were given a passcode to access patient records. "While we want everyone who needs access to the records to have that access, we haven't opened... 92% LaPorte gains efficiency with fingerprinting s... Summary: By Kim Ann Zimmermann The goal at LaPorte Hospital (LaPorte, IN) was to have a unique identifier for patients. The only unique identifier the hospital could come up with was the patient's fingerprints. "We didn't want to replace the records management system we had. We just wanted a more efficient way of identifying our patients," Shebel says. The hospital also wants to scan a patient's... 91% Small law office looks to go mobile Summary: Small law office looks to go mobile. Groupwise can launch Watermark documents or link them to an E-mail document. It tells me where I can find it. Reading a 30-page document in an E-mail is too time-consuming. All I need to know is where I can get the document." 89% After imaging, doctors will "never go back" Summary: After imaging, doctors will "never go back". A doctor can be at home or on vacation and use his or her laptop to retrieve a patient record if the need arises. The cardiology practice has invested $95,000 in the document imaging system. Currently, there are about 100,000 documents in Arkansas Cardiology's document imaging system. Remote access to patient records from the hospital also benefits... 89% Microfiche becoming a memory Summary: While it has an electronic laboratory information system, the center was still sending reports from that system out to be microfiched. "We wanted to find a better system for storing, indexing and retrieving laboratory information. I wanted to get away from relying on microfilm," Foret says. What it decided on was a link from their laboratory information system to a MedPlus (Cincinnati) OptiMaxx... 89% Amtrak traces steps of Empire State Building sh Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997 Amtrak traces steps of. Now, instead of three people, there is one person performing that job. "But we proved to ourselves we could handle a high-volume period." He also preaches regular maintenance of the scanner. Amtrak also eventually want to be able to fax out from the system. 88% Improved patient care through document imaging Summary: The patient records are available wherever they are needed, with access through workstations on a LAN. Accordingly, it is very important to have an efficient means of entering paper documents into the electronic records system. The images still retain the familiar format of charts and records." The system is being deployed on a LAN throughout the hospital. With document images, the physician has... 86% Information warehousing Summary: .. how many acronyms can we assign to healthcare information technology? None of these systems alone can provide the information required for a complete computerized patient record. In a capitated environment, this can be very expensive for the provider. The warehouse can allow access to all information by integrating current and historical patient information, regardless of where it is stored,... 85% Knowledge-based processes depend on workflow Summary: Workflow Systems. * Document management: The document management system must have broad capabilities to collect, organize and present information easily and quickly. NHIN then routes them to as many reviewers as necessary for the appropriate authorizations. NHIN's services help its subscribers improve the workflow of their knowledge-based processes. Effective document management is crucial... 85% Raytheon shares data across the sea Electronic Summary: "We needed data in both locations. A system configured with user involvement. We had two gentlemen in the U.K. who were also involved--one engineer and one involved in system support." Currently, the system contains all the product and maintenance data on the Beech corporate jets. "Probably the first benefit was to have all data accessible from any point," Tos says. 84% Network scanners reduce paper-based inefficiency Summary: August, 1996 Network scanners reduce paper-based inefficiency. This labor-intensive process was one of many administrative inefficiencies rooted in the hospital's reliance on paper. This process would allow hospital staff to efficiently store, share and distribute information electronically over the hospital network. What is a network scanner?. The network scanner allows users to bridge the... 84% Document capture for the healthcare enterprise Summary: ) customizable; (2. 1. Customizable. Effective document capture solutions must be customizable in the following ways: * Technology. To be truly customizable, the document capture system must be open. Features should include: * Customizable capture process. 84% Integration: The key to image management Summary: "Without the integration with our HIS applications, we could not realize the tremendous cost savings and gains in productivity that we have. How an imaging system is implemented can be as important as the functionality itself. Third, the productivity gains and cost savings can easily justify the implementation costs. After gaining experience in patient accounting, most healthcare organizations... 84% CD-Recordable, COLD and imaging Summary: CD-Recordable, COLD and imaging. In many cases these records accumulated into hundreds of megabytes, and CD-R, COLD and imaging were the solutions. It is no longer just the financial community that accumulates megabytes of computer data on a daily basis. Add CD-ROM and CD-R to a networked information. There is networking software available today that adds CD-based technology. 83% Image-enabling the healthcare enterprise Summary: Central data repositories and imaging. However, these repositories are limited to structured electronic data, i.e., letters and numbers. A closer look at central data repositories. They can also store and retrieve the images and other data on optical storage media. With these facts in mind, many hospitals are looking to integrate their central data repositories with imaging systems. 83% Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor Summary: Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor. AccraTronics benefits from view and markup capabilities. To make the transition successfully from a military to a commercial supplier, AccraTronics knew that it had to abandon its reliance on paper and adopt a computer-based solution that permitted a virtually real-time electronic dialog between designers and shop floor staff regarding all... 83% Automated cleanup rids systems of worthless im... Summary: Future forms will be measured against that form and will be adjusted for skew and other attributes against the original form. "This is especially important when you are doing recognition on particular zones on a form," says Macciola. The forms recognition capability will also scale the image to match the form. For example, contrast may be more important than skew, but OCR readabiliy in a... 82% Limiting access without limiting care Summary: SECURITY DILEMMA FACES ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS.e., assurance that data is not lost or modified) and confidentiality should fall to care providers. Tonnesen says, "The care providers are themselves patients whose data is in the medical record; they have a vested interest, as do all patients, in supporting efforts to ensure data privacy."e. healthcare providers either have access to all records... 82% Stanford Health Services moves to electronic p... Summary: Stanford Health Services moves to electronic patient records. Therefore, SHS realized it needed authorization from its review organization much earlier in the patient care process to ensure payment. The primary challenge at SHS was to re-engineer the records management process so that patient information could be entered as it became available at locations distributed throughout the facility....
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