The Problem:
The healthcare industry in the US includes care providers; hospitals, clinics,
doctors offices, nursing homes, manufacturers of drugs, medical devices,
and other medical equipment and supplies, private health insurers and government
health insurance programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The industry is highly
fragmented. There are about 7,000 general hospitals; 15,000 nursing homes;
 10,000 diagnostic laboratories; 30,000 outpatient clinics; 120,000 dentists'
offices; 200,000 doctors' offices; and 1,000 drug manufacturers; 5,000
manufacturers of medical equipment and supplies; and 3,000 private health
insurers.
Healthcare providers compete based on location and reputation,
and to a lesser extent on cost. Providers of health insurance
plans compete mainly based on cost, with corporate customers
supporting a large percentage of the cost.
Because of the administrative restrictions that HMOs, insurers,
and government programs place on payments to healthcare providers,
the healthcare system is permeated by detailed recordkeeping,
usually through custom-built computer systems. Billing and
resolving billing disputes occupy a large amount of administrative
time for healthcare providers. Healthcare providers and private
insurers are subject to extensive state and federal regulation.
Solution:
Automating labor intensive, manual business processes revolving around the
creation and life cycle of paper and other related information.
Digital Storage Solutions combines the best of breed capture
technology with leading edge document management and workflow
solutions. Our solutions provide organizations with unparalleled
automation, visibility and control of the workflow process,
giving companies the ability to realize significant benefits
such as: Allowing Health Care Providers better access to
data that will help them prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and researchers are able
to electronically mine databases of patient information to
diagnose disease or develop safer clinical studies, reduced
accounts receivable cycles, streamlined efficiencies including
measurable savings in administrative costs and more efficient
information retrieval, leading to enhanced accountability
which optimizes corporate performance.
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- Increased access to critical information used to
provide a higher level of patient care
- Increased workflow efficiency of the claims process
- Comply with Industry and Government regulations
such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley
- Process patient chart information more accurately
with increased automation
- Improved analysis and reporting capabilities
- Create and secure an auditable business process
- Reduce physical document storage costs
- Eliminate missing or lost Patient files
- Integrate seamlessly with practice management tools
such as Web MD and Medical Manager
- Provides multiple output streams to simultaneously
populate archival/retrieval systems and image-enabled
workflow
- Reduces document sorting and paper handling
- Reduces or eliminates shipping/courier costs
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