eForms: Driving Change In The Healthcare Market

This white paper from dbtech discusses recent debate over the healthcare industry in terms of rising costs, frustrated patients, quality and timeliness of service, and the difficulty understanding and slow speed of payments to insurance companies and healthcare providers. Major challenges to the healthcare industry that contribute to these issues are eliminating the use of redundant medical forms, reducing overall paperwork, and simplifying business processes.

Medical forms are challenging because they often require multiple color-coded copies that must be sent to different departments. Purchasing and storing these paper forms are an enormous cost for hospitals and additional costs are associated with the time required by employees to enter form data into the hospital’s network. This paper notes that an average person on a hospital’s administrative staff can enter an entire day’s worth of documents in seven hours. The time and labor required to process important patient and billing information manually can have a major impact on patient care, payment, and authorization of services.

Digitization of all medical information into an electronic form is one way hospitals can improve and simplify manual entry processes. Digital forms, images, and medical records can all play a major role in reducing medical costs, streamlining information processing, and improving patient care. The deployment of health information exchanges, electronic health records, and eForms across the healthcare industry are driving the desire to overhaul the industry.

To learn more about the benefits eForms provide to healthcare organizations and the advances in eForms technology, download this white paper below.