excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 98% 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... 95% SunGard Healthcare Summary: SunGard Healthcare offers a suite of integrated products which combine health information management applications, imaging, workflow, multimedia document management, and flexible open technical architecture. A fully integrated solution, SunGard 2000 includes comprehensive systems for medical records. 95% 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... 94% The Brief Case Summary: GHS will use AccountFlo to manage business office operations including patient accounts processing. Southside Hospital (Bay Shore, NY) also has signed a contract with SunGard Healthcare for its ChartFlo 2000 Medical Record (EMR) system. In addition to ChartFlo EMR's electronic document management, imaging and open workflow capabilities, Southside will implement SunGard's Windows-based T... 94% 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... 93% 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... 93% 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. 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. 93% 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... 92% 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.... 92% 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,... 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% Wang healthcare initiative eases physicians' pain Summary: Wang healthcare initiative eases physicians' pain.wang.com) has announced several new healthcare initiatives. The move is geared to improve healthcare providers' access to crucial medical and administrative documents. The initiatives include Web-enabled enhancement to Wang's Physicians' Workstation, the Wang Sole Source Healthcare Solution, and a strategic alliance with the computer technology... 91% 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% 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... 91% 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. 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% 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... 90% The solutions are here Summary: August, 1996 Healthcare document management and workflow. The solutions are here. We are pleased to present the industry's finest solution providers focused upon healthcare applications. The challenge for today's healthcare management is to provide a continuing higher level of service, while reducing the cost of providing that service. The solutions described in this paper provide a road map to... 89% 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.
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