Maximizing the Value of Your HIM Operations

The landscape of healthcare is rapidly changing.
Healthcare delivery is becoming more competitive and regulatory compliance requirements are increasing.
In order to grow in this environment, organizations must:

Establish and prove cost effective delivery of healthcare in the marketplace
Ensure patient safety
Assure regulatory compliance
Participate in health information sharing

At the center of all this, but often overlooked, is the traditional HIM function. Despite often being an afterthought in the rush to implement the latest electronic tool, the HIM department remains the center of information flow within your organization.

The key to successful transition from paper to electronic [read less delays, lower cost, less resistance, higher staff morale and greater opportunities to truly transform your organization] is remembering that HIM department functions have evolved over multiple decades to be highly efficient in handling paper. Therefore the transition to achieving efficiency electronically will take time-but is worth it.

Articles and News

iPad Functionality

North Andover, MA. - February 15, 2011

KYOS Announces the migration and unification of desktop and mobile applications for the KYOS TransFORM Stystems. All of the paper charts are available on the iPad mobile platform, with annotation capability. Visit site.

Key Goals and Milestones

Consider the following as key goals and milestones along the way which help guide the transition and paint the path forward more clearly for everyone:

Enabling remote coding for increased revenue turns per year
Increasing information availability at point of care for greater patient safety
Improving physician satisfaction and productivity through on-demand search and retrieve
Improving patient satisfaction, great support for accounts receivables, and even increased revenue from self-operated release of information operations
Significant operations savings from reducing the handling, storing, transporting, retrieving, and copying of paper records-which may total in the millions annually for large hospitals
Increasing space for clinical activities by eliminating paper storage

Roadmap to EMR

All of the above can and should be accomplished through an efficient medical record scanning and management program long before a full EMR implementation. Indeed, scanning records is a logical first step to acclimate your entire team to electronic search and retrieve, information sharing, building the patient legal record, as well as systematically building up the new HIM and IT infrastructures needed to support the electronic environment.

Constant care and maintenance is required-don't be surprised that once people discover that information can be made electronic, demand for scanning even more and diverse types of documents will place increasing demands on your HIM and IT department capabilities. KYOS can help. We invite you to take a tour through our website to find out how we deliver outstanding scan and document management solutions for wherever you are in the great paper-to-electronic transition.

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