EMR- Electronic Medical Records- are the digital equivalent of paper records or “charts” made by your healthcare provider. Your EMR will contain such information as symptoms or physical complaints, a complete medical history, past, and current treatment and medications, medical tests, X-rays, MRI and other radiological scans, current and future checks of general health, expected results and other notes important to a patient’s health and well-being.
That collection might be handwritten, transcribed from a voice recording, or originating as a digital record. But no matter the origination, the record is now completely digital.
Because the information is now an EMR, patient data and provider notes can be viewed by multiple physicians or medical technicians in different locations, it is searchable for particular words or phrases, the patient’s history can be easily traced over a period of years without thumbing through a file of the paper. This makes test results and treatment options more easily understood since healthcare providers have access to ALL records at one source. Specialists can consult with each other while viewing the same records and test results.
But who collects and compiles these records? Even more importantly if the records are on paper, who scans or translates them into a digital format?
Digitization and document storage is a natural fit for a professional Business Process Outsourcing - BPO Company.
Document Digitization is a process of converting physical data into digital format by either a software or a manual process. If you’re moving into the digital realm for the first time, the amount of paper documentation that already exists can be staggering. And the task of going digital may seem overwhelming. Digitization of data may be of various types:
And what do you gain for all this digitization?
Documentation Digitization is a key service of a quality BPO. Make sure your partner uses the best methods and people to handle your documents.
Combining Electronic Medical Records with a move to a Healthcare BPO Service provider is a natural fit. Healthcare providers won’t have to hire new staff, or train existing staff to make the change to digital. A BPO can provide trained, experienced professionals to handle all of the migration to digital quickly, efficiently and securely.
Contact Rely Services today for a no-cost evaluation of your opportunities with EMR and BPO!