Anyone who has spent much time in a hospital or doctor’s office knows there is still a lot of paper processing that goes into the delivery of care. Most people in healthcare view printing and paper processing as a necessary evil — as something that they can’t help but handle in the daily routines of patient admissions, care delivery, and billing and claims processing. Unfortunately, many healthcare organizations don’t invest in the valuable print management, scanning, and document conversion tools available today because they believe EHR adoption will translate to a paperless hethcare environment in the very near future.
The truth is that healthcare organizations will have to continue to manage and process significant volumes of paper based patient information for many years due to sluggish adoption of EHRs at clinics, compounded by the inability of many disparate systems to communicate with each other. Today’s healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to improve operational efficiency, reduce the cost of care, ensure patient privacy, and meet regulatory pressures (HIPAA) – while at the same time improving the quality of care. How these organizations handle paper can have a direct impact on how successful a hospital or clinic is in meeting these challenges — and that is what this blog is all about…sharing ideas on how to improve paper processing in healthcare.
Why Nuance Communications? Sure, chances are you already know Nuance through the use of our dictation and transcription products. With almost 40% of US hospitals, over 450,000 individual providers, and over 10,000 healthcare institutions using these solutions already, Nuance is truly a market leader — and is transforming clinical care. What many may not know is that Nuance Document Imaging solutions are in use at over 1,000 healthcare organizations today – including many of the most well respected hospitals in the US. Our Document Imaging team truly understands the paper processing and print management needs of healthcare providers, and we’re passionate about making a difference in this way…
View a recent webinar we partnered on with HIMSS to learn more about how we can help your healthcare organization overcome these challenges – http://www.nuance.com/videoplayer/videoplayer.asp?p=/imaging/&w=640&h=390&n=MedTech_19Oct11&fileType=MP4
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