Reduce the Operational Barriers for Moving to Electronic Medical Records
Bigger is not necessarily better
If you are involved in IT at a healthcare facility, you are acutely aware of the issues surrounding roll out of an EMR. Despite the known problems of taking an industry that is steeped in document and information management from pen and paper to full realtime access to all information with high security, most of the institutions don't have the manpower and training capabilities to handle a full roll out of an EMR. Correspondingly, the move to Electronic Medical Records systems is painful, drawn out and often fails. Furthermore, studies have shown that the larger and more comoplicated an IT project is, the more often it does fail.
KYOS Systems helps with the paper handling
The paperless office is a myth – especially in healthcare. Its a hybrid world and will be for quite some time. Yet the IT department is tasked with how to handle both paper and electronic data, and seemlessly integrate those two disparate data sources together. Scanning and archiving paper is one way to handle this problem, yet it doesn't allow rapid access to pertinent data, and often then requires physicians to abstract data from the paper charts into the EMR to make sure that important data is not hidden in the depths of a file system.
KYOS Functionality can interact with existing systems or stand on its own
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“I just love, love, love the KYOS System, everything is so easy to get to, find and use.”
Coder for Rehab Hospital
Your institution may be sitting on a potential reveune source - Paper assets, that if easily searchable and distributable, can be used for a number of revenue and good-will generating activities.
- Handle Release of Information easily – turn that activity from a revenue loosing or neutral activity to a significant revenue source with a few clicks of a button.
- Actively mine for potential Clinical Trial participants – based on data hidden within their paper charts
- Begin to achieve Meaningful Use capabilities even when data is in paper forms – such as providing an electronic copy of medical records to patients within 48 hours.
- Allow much more rapid and easy access to medical information for coding and billing activities.
Use only what is needed
Extending your existing infrastructure and software
KYOS Systems works with your staff to identify potential sources of improvement and staff retraining. We then assure smooth integration of appropriate functionality and modules to optimize workflows and enhance data extraction.
Optimizing Workflows with KYOS
Often scanned images (even with barcodes) are not being identified at high rates automatically, the KYOS functionality of image identification and indexing can be used with the existing system to handle those pages that are missed.
HIM staff is required to manually look through charts to find missing signatures and dates. The Deficiency Analysis functionality helps streamline that process, and coupled with e-Signature capability, greatly eases the burden on the HIM staff and the physicians to rectify those omissions.
Coding, Billing and Accounting often need specific pages quickly. Use KYOS to find and deliver those pages automatically and within minutes after scanning.
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The KYOS System provides a paper to electronic interface that will allow access to these paper assets on your network, utilizing existing infrastructure where appropriate and modifying modules and interfaces where necessary. The modular nature of the KYOS System lets your department begin scanning, indexing and handling images in ways that will make the most of your existing infrastructure, while driving automation and productivity where it is needed.
KYOS Systems Inc, a Massachusetts high tech company specializing in healthcare IT