Case Study: Large-Scale Multi-Specialty Practice Cuts Costs, Boosts ROI With Panasonic/Sage Solution

Now entering its 40th year of providing worldclass primary, specialist and surgical care to residents of West Virginia and adjacent states, the Huntington Internal Medical Group (HIMG) is comprised of more than 60 internists, each with advanced training in such sub-specialties as cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, oncology and pulmonary disease.

With roughly 1,000 patients daily being seen by one of the group's physicians or receiving care at its imaging center, endoscopy surgery center, chemotherapy center, heart and vascular center or hearing center, HIMG was generating so much paperwork that 17 employees were required to process, fi le, track and access it, Director of Clinical Management Jonna Hughes says.

Today, three years after a decision to "go digital" in conjunction with the Group's move into a new, state-of-the-art 150,000 square foot facility, medical and billing record keeping and workflow is managed by four employees using Panasonic KV-S3065 and KV-S2065 scanners integrated with Sage Software's Intergy EHR electronic health record management system.

HIMG's full complement of Panasonic scanners consists of three high-speed (65ppm/120ipm) KV-S3065 color scanners for medical billing and general business offi ce use and two KV-2065 workgroup scanners for capturing medical records, charts, patient data sheets, authorization forms, lab reports and other patient-care related documents.