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Health improvements for DataScan

Editorial Type: News     Date: 05-2015    Views: 2020      






Dublin-based bureau and BPO DataScan has purchased seven mid-volume production KODAK i4200 Plus Scanners and installed Filestream electronic document management software (EDMS)

The new infrastructure will enable DataScan to rapidly grow its healthcare business in 2015 servicing hospital consultants and GPs. Supplied by Filestream reseller partner, Woodsoft, the total investment in scanning hardware, software and support is 150,000 euros.

Electronic medical records (EMR) solutions promote better clinical collaboration and ultimately provide a way to solve the tough challenge of improving the quality of patient care, enhancing operational productivity while reducing cost. Unlike EMR scanning projects in the UK which have been primarily funded and managed by NHS trusts, in Ireland it has been individual hospital consultants and GPs themselves who have initiated and paid for EMR projects for the patients they treat.

With around 10,000 patient files scanned per week, DataScan is seeing considerable interest in its medical records scanning services and today has around 70 healthcare customers.

Once records are scanned and indexed into File Stream, data can easily be imported into all the main PMS packages used by clinicians in Ireland such as Socrates Healthcare, Helix Healthcare, Odysseus and iMedDoc among others.

Barry Woods, managing director, Woodsoft, explains, "High volume scanners are perfect for processing documents like invoices which are very standardised. You load them up, press scan and walk away. But patient files are messy typically containing lots of different document and paper types which means considerable preparatory work required such that you wouldn’t get the efficiencies from using high volume equipment.

"To address this, we’ve installed a mid volume KODAK i4200 Plus Scanner per workstation so individual members of DataScan’s staff can work on specific projects and prepare documents as they go along."
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