HIPAA requires health information to be secure and protected. But if you work in the healthcare field, you have likely already concluded that being a HIPAA-compliant practice or organization does not guarantee the safety of patient records as they exist in paper format. Consider how easily paper charts can be damaged or destroyed by way …
At ScanWorks, we spend a lot of time talking to doctors and other medical professionals about EHR implementation. Our piece of the puzzle is scanning physicians’ backlog of paper medical charts into EHRs. But in talking with those in the medical field, we have learned that the reluctance to adopt an EHR has a lot …
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If you are considering having your documents, files, or charts scanned, you must be realizing that there are some very real costs of keeping all that paper. You must be wondering if there is a cost savings to scanning your backlog. Here are some interesting statistics that should help you make the decision to scan …
ScanWorks is pleased to discuss its ability to meet privacy and confidentiality concerns with prospective customers. As an attorney-owned business, you can be sure we stay on top of the regulations that govern our document scanning service. But how about you, the practitioner? How sure are you that your medical practice is compliant with privacy …
If you are part of a medical practice that is implementing an EHR, you have a lot of decisions to make. One of them is what to do with the shelves and shelves of paper charts you have accumulated. Are you contemplating continuing to maintain those charts and not scanning them for import into your …
I used to stare at a mountain of boxes stuffed full of confidential documents that needed to be scanned for record retention purposes. I knew there would be costs, direct and indirect, of scanning those documents in-house. But I also struggled with the decision to out-source my scanning work. So I know where you are …
As the owner of ScanWorks, I am regularly asked this question by prospective customers in businesses of all types and sizes: why should I pay hard-earned money to have my documents scanned when I can store them indefinitely and just find them when I need them? That’s a great question and business owners needs to …
It occurs to us here at ScanWorks that we have a lot in common with service providers on the front line, whether that be doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, physical therapists, mental health providers, etc. And that is, we all do everything within our power to ensure we are providing the highest level of care …
If you are facing a backlog of paper medical charts or other documents, you have already given some thought as to how you are going to get it all scanned in an efficient and economical manner so that the data therein is incorporated into your EHR. In order to even start the scanning process, you …
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For many practitioners in the medical field, paper remains the primary way to maintain and exchange medical records and prescriptions. Reluctance to adopt an EHR system is therefore not uncommon. ScanWorks understands that there are many complexities associated with adopting and using an EHR in a meaningful way, and the time devoted to researching and …
