Comments on: To Scan or Not to Scan – Dealing with Legacy Documents in an EHR World http://emrdailynews.com/2009/06/17/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-dealing-with-legacy-documents-in-an-ehr-world/ News of the day in Electronic Medical Records, EHR and HIT Fri, 11 May 2012 13:35:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: emrscanningandimaging http://emrdailynews.com/2009/06/17/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-dealing-with-legacy-documents-in-an-ehr-world/comment-page-1/#comment-362 emrscanningandimaging Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:03:20 +0000 http://emrdailynews.com/?p=450#comment-362 The scanning technology on the market today has come down in price, and the quality is absolutely fantastic. Capture technology will auto-adjust scanner doc size, as well as perform image enhancements to clear up the image, and in many cases, make it better than the original. The scanning technology on the market today has come down in price, and the quality is absolutely fantastic. Capture technology will auto-adjust scanner doc size, as well as perform image enhancements to clear up the image, and in many cases, make it better than the original.

]]> By: emrscanningandimaging http://emrdailynews.com/2009/06/17/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-dealing-with-legacy-documents-in-an-ehr-world/comment-page-1/#comment-209 emrscanningandimaging Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:03:20 +0000 http://emrdailynews.com/?p=450#comment-209 The scanning technology on the market today has come down in price, and the quality is absolutely fantastic. Capture technology will auto-adjust scanner doc size, as well as perform image enhancements to clear up the image, and in many cases, make it better than the original. The scanning technology on the market today has come down in price, and the quality is absolutely fantastic. Capture technology will auto-adjust scanner doc size, as well as perform image enhancements to clear up the image, and in many cases, make it better than the original.

]]> By: Steve Campbell http://emrdailynews.com/2009/06/17/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-dealing-with-legacy-documents-in-an-ehr-world/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Steve Campbell Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:44:28 +0000 http://emrdailynews.com/?p=450#comment-68 This is one of the questions that I've been really curious about - what happens to all of those legacy documents. You're right, it does make sense to go digital going forward but from what I've seen and read many of the smaller practices are buying a scanner and having everything scanned. That seems like a tremendous investment in time and resources to me. <br><br>I see that <a href="http://Contegohim.com" rel="nofollow">Contegohim.com</a> offers a nationwide onsite scanning service - what is your team seeing? For your customers choosing to scan the legacy documents are they doing any special coding, beyond file names to get the scanned documents into the EMR systems? This is one of the questions that I've been really curious about – what happens to all of those legacy documents. You're right, it does make sense to go digital going forward but from what I've seen and read many of the smaller practices are buying a scanner and having everything scanned. That seems like a tremendous investment in time and resources to me.

I see that Contegohim.com offers a nationwide onsite scanning service – what is your team seeing? For your customers choosing to scan the legacy documents are they doing any special coding, beyond file names to get the scanned documents into the EMR systems?

]]> By: Walker http://emrdailynews.com/2009/06/17/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-dealing-with-legacy-documents-in-an-ehr-world/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Walker Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:01:25 +0000 http://emrdailynews.com/?p=450#comment-67 I am curious as to whether providers are scanning all of their old files post EHR implementation. If it is so expensive, I imagine they are just digitizing from day forward. Regardless, there is still a huge paper burden and that doesn't seem to be addressed with most EHR installs. I am curious as to whether providers are scanning all of their old files post EHR implementation. If it is so expensive, I imagine they are just digitizing from day forward. Regardless, there is still a huge paper burden and that doesn't seem to be addressed with most EHR installs.

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