Scanning Medical Records

Healthcare providers in the US invest billions of dollars every year storing and manage paper and digital medical records, is accessed by 14.3 million care givers. Inefficient paper-based documents still dominate the healthcare industry. The ever-increasing volume of patient information will continue to place increasing strain on the US economy. There will be 17.5 million care givers by 2018 to cope with the rapid growth in the elderly population.

The transition from Paper Records to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) has been jump-started by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) which has directed $19.2 billion to be spent on the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) within the next 2-3 years. The Act provides financial incentives for healthcare providers to make the transition from paper-based to electronic records, but achieving this transition is challenging. It is critical to partner with the right service provider to ensure success.

Currently only 17% of physicians and 8% of hospitals have a basic EMR system but this is projected to be 90% by 2019. Less than 25% are using ‘fully functional’ EMRs. Physicians will be penalized by receiving smaller payments if they are not using EMR by 2015. There are around 600,000 office-based physicians nationwide in 250,000 practices and around 300,000 additional physicians who work in hospitals. 95% of the practice-based physicians are in small practices (less than 10 docs) and, of those, 30% are in solo or two-person practices. A recent survey of physicians demonstrated around 60% of the 597 respondents stated they would use the incentive programs to buy an EMR in 2011. As the physicians transition, all the other care givers and service providers must follow including laboratories, pharmacies, hospitals, payors, other referring physicians, home health agencies and long-term care facilities.

Scrypt, with all the tools available, can accelerate the transition to an EMR system digitizing patient records, archiving and protecting electronic records from disaster, and securely storing – and if necessary arranging the destruction of paper records.

When you partner Scrypt, you get our 4D process and best practice that ensures you:

• Rapidly and cost-effectively transition your organization towards an EMR solution
• Enable full access to patient information throughout the entire process
• Get all the benefits of operational cost and resource savings
• Improve all aspects of regulatory compliance.

Scrypt has been specifically designed to help turn paper-based records into high quality electronic records through secure document scanning and powerful document archive solution. Scrypt is super-secure ensuring the contents of the patient records are protected throughout the entire process.

Remember, we have three Scrypting services: Do it yourself, Send to Us or Call the Experts – or any combination of these.