Saturday 23 August 2014

Medical Records Are Stored Digitally Using Healthcare Document Scanning

By Loris F. Anders


It may seem like a task that will never be completed. As time consuming as it is in the beginning, it will save time in the future. All the benefits of turning an office into a paperless office in New York City are obvious. Healthcare document scanning lowers the storage cost due to reduced space, makes it easy to find records and the documents can be accessed from any location.

It is legally required to store health documents in a way that facilitates retrieval. A disaster recovery plan must be in effect. The job of converting them does seem impossible though, when the original change is being made.

There are companies in business for the specific task of doing it for you. Experts will step in and convert all those health care documents into space-saving digital images. They are then stored either on discs or in an electronic document management system.

Any health care facility, large or small, can improve the storage system by using this new method. Data is available for the doctors, nurses and any other medical personnel when they need to access it. This is in compliance with an Act passed in 2009 covering the requirements for recovery and reinvestment of medical records.

The procedure begins with the company picking up the hard copies of the medical records. They are driven to the place of business. There they are unpacked and prepared for the scanning.

Once there, they are broken down to single sheets from the packets that may exist now. Then everything is put through the high-speed scanners. Notes that are smaller than the standard size sheet of paper are set on the standard size page although they do not fill the entire page. Next they are all converted into a digital record.

It may sound like an excessively expensive procedure. You can contact one of the companies that are in business to perform the procedure and request a free quote. The price is based on volume, in other words it depends on how many pages you need scanned.

Software that does the job can be purchased. The process of converting the documents to digital format allow it to be stored in a fraction of the space required for hard copies. All health care records are kept private. They are maintained in perfect condition, unlike the paper documents could be.

There is a job called a medical records technician. It requires the skill of filing and keeping the records accessible for the medical personnel. Imagine how the ease of looking it up on a computer as compared to walking up and down crowded aisles filled with hard copies of medical records.




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