Guest Column: How Can Document Scanning Protect You From Swine Flu?

By Mike Stuhley is the president of GoScan, Inc.

It's the biggest healthcare story of 2009. The World Health Organization has declared the swine flu pandemic the first in 41 years. In order to manage this crisis, the healthcare community will need to use technology to track patients and countermeasures in order to quickly analyze what is working and what needs to be changed.

Decision making for the flu pandemic requires information. Information must be gathered, processed, researched and reported. Fortunately there are simple, affordable technologies available to healthcare providers to help manage the information.