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•Guest Column: EMR Pushes Healthcare To Adapt Capture Methods

By Robert Applebaum, VP of product marketing, ibml
Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

The days of pulling paper for active medical records and microfilming inactive records for storage are almost memories. But going 100% electronic to feed massive electronic medical record (EMR) investments means hospitals and clinics must tackle unanticipated, complex, labor-intensive, and expensive capture challenges.

The drivers behind EMR are improved care delivery, regulatory compliance, and fast, efficient record access for clinical, coding, and billing staff. However, when a record designed to be read as paper is digitized, it becomes the legal patient record, and an array of problems arise. There are issues with scanned image quality and questions about whether the entire record was captured. And, is the indexing granular enough to provide the desired clinical, coding, and billing efficiencies?

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•Guest Column: EMR Pushes Healthcare To Adapt Capture Methods

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