Why should you switch to an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system? Well, for beginners, it’s the law! But, there are also huge benefits to your practice. If you’re not a medical practice, you might want to check out another one of my articles One Step PDF Scanning can reduce overhead; otherwise, take a look at some the benefits of scanning:
- Scanned documents enable simultaneous access and collaboration
- Eliminates the costs and risks of lost documents
- Reduce labor and material costs associated with paper-based records
- Reduce potential errors and improve patient care through accurate document storage and retrieval
- Scan to PDF for easier file sharing
- Substantially reduce physical storage requirements
- Secure access mitigates risks
- Expedite and enhance patient services
- Achieve regulatory compliance by enabling better recordkeeping through scanning
- Establish a foundation for on-going process improvement
Obviously different medical practices have different needs. For example, if you want to cover all types of documents, then you probably want a reliable flatbed scanner; like the Fujitsu Fi-6240 or the Fi-6130 which is considered a workgroup scanner for high volume scanning.
Lastly, if you need to share the scanner amongst your staff, you might want to consider the Fujitsu ScanSnap N1800 with many features like:
- Scan to network folder
- Scan to email
- Scan to FTP server
- Scan to network fax
- Scan to a network printer
- Scan to Microsoft SharePoint
You can find all of these scanners and tons of other office solutions at The Other Guys.
