automated workflows

Beyond Extraction and Classification

Beyond Extraction and Classification

There's a reason for automated workflows. Document classification is a lot faster and more accurate than having your staff manually enter and scan documents. Read this blog to find out how you can improve your workflows.

AHIMA Brings Fresh Healthcare Innovation

AHIMA Brings Fresh Healthcare Innovation

The 2017 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit came and went last week. The diverse crowd of junior and senior members of the HIM community coming together is inspiring to see. Spending time sharing ideas and best practices and as the slogan goes, “to inspire, innovate, and lead!”

Extract and the Chinese Parable

Extract and the Chinese Parable

There is a Chinese parable about the farmer who had a horse. One day, the horse ran off. That was bad. A couple days later, the horse came back and brought with it three wild horses. That was good.

Top 5 Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer

Top 5 Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer

Patients feel that they aren’t getting quality care from their physicians. They are being incorrectly diagnosed because they simply aren’t getting more than 15-minutes with their physicians. Their questions aren’t being answered, but instead being directed towards nurses. Patients are feeling more and more like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, on a journey to the Emerald City to find the Wizard and ask the for help.

Your care is only as good as your EMR/EHR

Your care is only as good as your EMR/EHR

Physician burnout is at an extremely high rate. Doctors and nurses everywhere are expected to keep up with management changes, new hospital mandates, technology in procedures, all the while keeping their clinical care first-class. I’ve read countless articles about predictions that the burnout rate will rise

An Intro to Machine Learning

An Intro to Machine Learning

I can guarantee that anybody reading this blog uses machine learning dozens of times each day without even realizing it. When you perform a web, search using Google or Bing, for instance, the search engine works so well because their software has figured out how to predict searches and rank pages for you.

Do You Even Document Handler, Bro?

Do You Even Document Handler, Bro?

Most people don’t realize how heavily some industries rely on faxes. But to those of us in the know, it’s becoming cliché to mention how relevant faxing still is. With non-relenting fax volumes comes the need for businesses to hire people who can manage incoming documents. Document handling is an intense job that requires an immense amount of focus and attention to detail. 

Innovation in Transplant – You’ve come a long way baby!

Innovation in Transplant – You’ve come a long way baby!

Earlier this month, Dr. Thomas Starzl, the father of organ transplantation, died at the age of 90. In reading an article about all that he did to ultimately discover what was needed to successfully transplant organs, one cannot help but to be awed by the uncertainty and risk that he needed to “work around” in order to make progress. 

What if Labs Had an Autopilot Option?

What if Labs Had an Autopilot Option?

If Google can make a self-driving car why can’t external labs be automatically integrated (driven) into clinical information systems?

Recently while visiting a National Cancer Institute customer that is also a designated Comprehensive Cancer Center we had a brief chuckle regarding cutting edge technology and healthcare.  Our customer, a large academic medical center, had asked us to come and talk with other departments about expanding our clinical data extraction software to other departments. They currently use Extract to capture data from lengthy pathology reports and then import the information into their data analytics repository.

How can healthcare benefit from OCR?

How can healthcare benefit from OCR?

Can you benefit from OCR?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is powerful software that transforms images such as faxes and scanned documents into human readable text. Access to this text is very powerful and can be used for many purposes. The questions below will help you determine whether or not you could benefit from an OCR solution.