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Healthcare - Hospitals

At ScerIS, we realize that no two healthcare organizations are the same. Thus, there is no “one size fits all” solution to meet every organization’s requirements. This is why ScerIS offers a variety of solutions tailored to meet your needs. With health systems gaining a new level of complexity, medical records now need to be retrieved at a faster rate and distributed to a wider base. Every patient visit generates a stack of forms, documents, care plans, tests and notes. Due to the sheer volume of documents, tracking one down can be a daunting task. As complexities increase and costs skyrocket, health care organizations are experiencing the need to automate more than ever. Optimizing your medical record management can increase control and value, ensure patient confidentiality, and improve patient care, accuracy and efficiency.

For organizations that currently use no form of automation, the first step is often to put in place an imaging system to start eliminating the paper. ScerIS makes it easy by providing you with the ability to extract key data elements from pre-designed forms to automate indexing and insertion into the electronic medical record (EMR). The records are laid out to look like the existing paper charts, helping to ensure a minimal learning curve.

At a time when healthcare organizations find themselves straddling the paper and electronic worlds, electronic document management enables you to interface multiple disparate systems, and simplifies the process of accessing files through the use of browser-based retrieval capabilities. Organizations that have implemented document imaging of medical records identify benefits in the following areas:

• Improved Access- All components of the health record are digitized and made available to multiple users at the same time.
• Retrieval/Delivery Times- Allowing access to records online eliminates the time it takes to retrieve and deliver charts, and makes the record available to any number of sites and users simultaneously.
• Workflow- With the implementation of an automated solution, the manual assembly, filing and retrieving of documents is no longer necessary, and in turn, the overall workflow efficiency is increased.
• Improved Coding/Accounts Receivable Processing Time- Imaging promotes faster coding and chart completion, and significantly reduces the number of insurance rejections. This inevitably creates better accounts receivable management.
• Increased Revenue, Decreased Expenses- The burden of handling and filing paper is considerably lessened, which allows employees to manage more value added responsibilities. The need to store paper in filing cabinets, rooms and off-site storage facilities is eliminated.
• Reduced Audit Risk- Audit trails can be set for monitoring all activities within ScerIS. All searches, search result lists, views of information, and print, fax, or email instances can be recorded for the purpose of HIPAA audits. Storing all records in one secure location also ensures that your organization will have all the required supporting documentation for proof in the event of an insurance audit.
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity- Electronic data archives are stored in an unchangeable format, allowing the ScerIS Enterprise Report Management application to serve as a backup to your critical information. Unlike the storage of paper reports, electronic reports provide the means for business continuity by being easy to backup; while simultaneously being easy to secure and trace. In the event of an unplanned interruption in access to a host application or a loss of data, ScerIS ERM has been used to restore vital information.

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