A recent survey indicates that healthcare organizations are expecting increases in both the data they send and receive but still have plenty of work to do in order to fully comply with interoperability standards.
End the Bottleneck of Unstructured Documents
The Benefits of a Fax/Scan Handling Solution-Part 1
Saving Time, Money and Reducing Errors with Automated Document Classification
I keep wondering why healthcare organizations wouldn’t want to streamline this repetitive, manual process and transform these documents into retrievable business-ready data. Think of all of the time, resources, money, and reduction in errors that could be improved upon if their workflow became automated via an advanced OCR solution and Machine Learning.
For example; a typical hospital has...
HIPAA Compliance FAQs for Non-Interfaced Data
The HIPAA Compliance Balancing Act
I was just listening to a webinar by a reputable Health IT vendor the other day on visual security and privacy risks in healthcare. As my company offers many ways to help with the challenges that healthcare organizations face with keeping PHI protected, I was interested in hearing what another solutions provider had to say.
I was rather surprised when the speaker mentioned keeping faxes and print outs further behind the counter so that others cannot easily see or take them.
24th Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum: One More for the Books
Once again I had the pleasure of attending the 24th Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum for my 4th time earlier this year. As always, it was a flurry of learning, knowledge-sharing, networking, and well-deserved awards for leaders in the industry.
It was as apparent this time as it was every time before, that the transplant community is a close-knit group who all struggle with similar things regardless of their geographical location. These struggles span across many areas, including financial, staffing, regulatory requirements, lack of organs, information technology, reporting, managing the constant deluge of paper, and many more. While I can't claim that Extract can help with all of these, there are two specific struggles that we excel at fixing: extracting discrete results from faxed external lab results and intelligently splitting, classifying, and filing large documents (such as referral packets) into patients' charts.
Automated PHI redaction makes clinical data management easier
Delayed Test Results? Watch This
How to redact PDF documents the truly proper way
3 Things To Do To Tame Your Backlog
A fax machine walks into a doctor's office...the not-so-funny joke about health information exchange
How to Navigate a Transplant System Improvement Agreement Process #3: The System Improvement Agreement
The System Improvement Agreement (SIA)
In our previous post, we discussed what happens when your program receives a letter from either the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) or the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and your program's initial response. Today we will focus on what happens if CMS does not accept your mitigating factors application.
What do a road trip and health information have in common?
I recently spent three days driving across the northern Midwestern States and through a good part of Canada with a longtime friend as we headed to a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure. As you might imagine our conversations spanning those 72 hours took as many twists and turns as did the roads we traveled. However, one saying my friend repeated several times stood out among many insightful remarks he’d made, “Your judgement is only as good as your information.“
Save Time With Document Classification
Do you frequently find yourself searching for and routing documents, whether paper or electronic, to colleagues, care team members or departments that need them? Or, worse do you find yourself waiting for documents to be routed to you? In our work, helping hospitals to automate clinical data abstraction, we're struck by the hours of time lost each day to inefficient workflows involving "loose" records that we often find ourselves helping our customers extract data from.