Featured Document Management Articles

81. A Healthcare Payer's Guide To Lean Document Processing 11/1/2012

    In this Q&A, Mark Smith, Director of Strategic Alliances at OPEX Corporation, shares his advice on how to apply lean concepts to the document processing operations of health insurance companies.

82. The Reality Of EHR Use In The Physicians Practice 10/2/2012

    Government incentives are motivating physicians practices to purchase EHRs, but it’s clear that EHR use varies widely from practice to practice, as does the value each office gets out of using the technology.

83. Document Management Provides Six-Figure Savings 10/2/2012

    An electronic document archive solution helps Morton Plant Mease Primary Care eliminate more than $140,000 per year in paper record storage expenses and streamline the flow of patient records to physicians.

84. Extending The Value Of Your EMR Installation 8/30/2012

    If you want complete visibility into patient information — through one interface and including information EMRs typically do not capture — integrated content managment is the answer. By Pete Cheuvront, Healthcare Enterprise Solution, KeyMark Inc.

85. Document Viewers & Your Enterprise Content Management System 8/6/2012

    Much the same way as the pieces and parts of songs such as the melody, lyrics and chorus must complement one another for the proper flow and composition of a tune – so too should the components of an organization’s content management system.

86. Don't Be Ruled By Your Forms 7/5/2012

    Chances are that your patients spend quite a bit of time filling out forms in your hospitals and medical practices, even in the midst of the massive migration to electronic medical records. However, as innocuous or simple these forms seem, I would dare say that they remain the lifeblood of the healthcare system — gathering critical information that drives every process from patient care to healthcare administration and finance.

87. Critical Content Can't Be Siloed 7/5/2012

    This special edition of Health IT Outcomes focuses on the “critical” patient health and financial data we are in the process of digitizing as a healthcare system. The federal government has deemed this move as a monumental step in cutting healthcare costs and improving patient care in the United States. It has even put incentives in place to spark IT adoption to this end. However, not everyone is convinced reduced costs and improved quality of care will be the result of this initiative.

88. Are You Fully Leveraging Your EHR Investment? 6/14/2012

    Failing to account for records created before the launch of a new system creates two methods of patient care – one using an automated platform, and one that requires costly, inefficient file storage and paper pushing. It’s the worst of both worlds.

89. Records Management: THE Critical Program For Patient Safety And Business Success 6/13/2012

    Managing information in the form of data, documents and records is arguably one of the most crucial activities for healthcare providers. Making critical strategic decisions, serving patients and their families, ensuring HIPAA compliance, and processing admissions, prescription, clinician and insurance transactions all depend on information that is easily accessible and entirely precise.

90. Quickly Resolve Scanning Problems With Operations Alerts 5/2/2012

    A new breed of analytics software provides timely alerts about performance shortfalls, so operations managers can now detect problems and make more informed decisions about your scanning environment within a time frame that is most effective. By Chad Eiler, software product manager at ibml