excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 98% 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. 95% 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,... 95% Bnkngtabcont Summary: Imaging, Document Information Mamagement & Workflow Solutions. Healthcare Enterprise The solutions are here. Image-enabling the healthcare enterprise. Document capture for the healthcare enterprise. ICR issues when integrated with a document imaging system. 93% Good Medicine Summary: Competition is intense yet contradictory. Yet both are vital to effective use of information for patient care. Scanning will always be required to some degree. The ability to distribute information across multiple facilities is becoming key to an organization's ability to maintain a competitive edge. The ability to secure information, yet keep it accessible, is a tremendous challenge. 92% Enterprisewide solution for integrated delivery Summary: By E. Andrew Mayo, Executive Vice President, MedPlus Inc. Medical records and the associated medical records information system (MRIS) must be the source for the "legal" medical record. Architecture for an enterprisewide patient record system.) * Encrypted digitized signature: A signature password verifies the user's signature authority. E. Andrew Mayo is Executive VP of MedPlus Inc. 92% Application integration: An essential ingredient Summary: Additionally, there is a host of clinical data management applications that also merits tight integration. To be truly effective, workflow must be fully integrated with the system and its applications. In addition to having workflow integrated with the application, the workflow product should also be fully integrated with the database as well. Integrated workflow does not mean that the workflow... 92% 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... 92% 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... 92% 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... 91% 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... 91% Wang healthcare initiative eases pain for phy... Summary: Wang healthcare initiative. Bruce Ryan, president of Wang Healthcare Information Systems, told IW that the company has worked on the healthcare enhancements for 18 months and has developed a new product browser. Marion McFarland, president and CEO of UCI Medical (Columbia, SC), says that he is optimistic about the use of Physicians' Workstation in his medical facility. UCI Medical staff have... 91% 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... 91% 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... 90% Healthcare's top priority: Developing an effective information strategy Summary: Developing an effective information strategy. The competitive landscape of healthcare delivery and management is altered forever. The pace of information technology change has also quickened. But these cannot simply be one-time reductions. They do take time. 90% Solutions in the news Summary: Solutions in the news. of Inspections and Appeals Fiscal Services Bureau is streamlining its business processes with FileNet's Watermark (Burlington, MA) software.. THE GRANT/RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITALS,. Grant/Riverside hospitals will use OmniVision to image-enable its Phamis clinical data repository that houses patient information.. B.J. MURRAY. 90% Electronic archiving of radiology images Summary: Most 5.25-in. optical data transfer rates are between 1 and 2 MB per second, with the newer 2.6 GB drives advertising 2 to 4 MB per second. optical drives which hold 15 GBs today and cost about $600 each. The Philips drive reads data at 2.7 MB per second and writes at 1.3 MB per second. CD is the least expensive optical media ($1,000 per drive and about $15 per 600 MB platter), but the slowest... 90% 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.... 90% 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... 90% Value added workshops Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996 Free To All Attendees. Monday, September 30. Healthcare/Medical: Managing the electronic patient record. No area of document management is expanding more rapidly. 9:00-10:30 a.m. Crossing vertical industry boundaries with document-centric information management. 90% 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.
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