In 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Around $19.2 billion of the $787 billion total allotted to the act was designated for electronic medical records stimulus. The process to help health care facilities migrate to a system of electronic medical records (EMR) has been tasking, but it should provide plenty of benefits in the long run to both doctors and patients.
The benefits to adopting electronic documents, or electronic medical records and health records integration, are:
· Streamlined and improved care for patients
· Long-term savings in the healthcare field by reducing costs for physicians (i.e. extraneous staff and storage costs)
· Medical charting costs are supplanted with inexpensive maintenance costs
· Quicker charting processes, which means more patients can be scheduled in a day
· Instantaneous access to necessary documents and medical history. By extension, accuracy will likely be increased via electronic document storage
· Preventing filing errors
· Allows for documents to be backed up, which doesn’t happen with paper documents; therefore, there is less concern about losing important medical documents
According to a 2003 study, physicians can save around $20,000 a year when they transition to electronic medical records. Surveys say 42 percent of family doctors have implemented the system. However, there continues to be some disagreement about how and when to make the switch. Yet with the proper company to help your office or health care facility, the transition can be less daunting than it seems.
Scantronix is a full-service e-document scanning and storage company that will help your company assess its needs and develop a plan. We’ve worked in multiple industries and can help your company, large or small, move seamlessly into the future. For more information, call us today at (212) 400-6484 or (718) 253-8787.