Is the way you are keeping your records putting your funeral home at risk? For any funeral home director, the key to excellent service over time is well-kept records– pre-need records for a funeral planned years from now, at-need records for reference at the time of other family members’ deaths, or cemetery records that must …
The latest numbers are now available. The federal government reports that over 300,000 eligible hospitals and medical professionals have now registered for the EHR Incentive Program. As of September 2012, Medicare has paid out almost $4 billion and Medicaid $3.5 billion in incentive payments. Has your medical practice applied? If so, how are you planning …
Is your medical practice converting to an EHR/EMR? Are you considering how to get your existing paper charts imported into your EHR? ScanWorks has the solution– high-speed scanning of each patient chart into a pdf that can be “attached” to each patient’s screen in your EHR. Our scanning software is compatible with all EHR software …
Consider this: • New York University Langone Medical Center was forced to evacuate midstorm. • Staten Island University’s hospitals were flooded. • Looking back seven years, Hurricane Katrina caused flood waters to inundate hospitals, causing patients’ medical histories to vanish. Based upon these occurrences, we should not doubt the importance of converting paper medical records …
If your medical practice is in the process of implementing an EHR / EMR, you are surely doing your best to keep abreast of the Meaningful Use rules coming out of the federal government. The Stage 2 rule was recently released. It describes the requirements and criteria that eligible providers and hospitals must meet if …
Deciding when to implement an EHR is perhaps the most important decision that a medical practice can make. Providers of all sizes who have gone through an electronic health record implementation say the process works best when practices take the time to do it correctly. Practitioners need to know that a methodical EHR implementation is …
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ScanWorks plays a role in the EHR/EMR conversion facing physicians nationwide. We scan existing paper medical charts by individual patient. Then we upload the scanned data into a practice’s EHR (or the in-house IT guru does it). Our scanned data can be uploaded into any EHR. While it is true that the the Ohio Health …
ScanWorks understands the importance of protecting the security and confidentiality of the documents we scan. Whether you work in the medical, legal, real estate, financial, or another field, we know that your customers have entrusted you with highly confidential information– their names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, bank account numbers, income …
Eligible medical providers and eligible hospitals may receive an incentive payment for the adoption, implementation, or upgrade of certified EHR/EMR technology so long as they can demonstrate ‘meaningful use’ of that technology. At ScanWorks, we are often asked by medical professionals if there are any guidelines as to how the incentive monies may be used. …
Are you concerned about what preparation you must undertake to ready your files for scanning? Worry no more! ScanWorks’s scanning price is all-inclusive– that means we retrieve your files and documents “as is” and we complete all the necessary work to prepare them to run through our high-speed scanners. We remove staples, binder clips, paper …
