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Achieving Complete EMR and Real ROI

Mercy Regional Health Center (MRHC), an acute care facility with 150 beds in two facilities in Manhattan, Kansas, achieved cost savings, faster admissions and patient finance processes and increased productivity by replacing hard copies of forms with Access PFS. With forms automation and electronic workflow in place, staff members share information more quickly and securely between departments and MRHC’s two facilities. As PFS ports forms directly into the document management system, data is current and consistent across the hospital’s EMR systems.

The Access solution has also reduced forms waste and eliminated the redundancy associated with duplicate and outdated forms.

Areas using Access solutions: Patient registration, patient finance, financials

Integration: Meditech, document management system

Access products deployed: Patient Flow System

Business Problems
  • Using a third party forms vendor drives up costs
  • Replace costly stamp plate machines in the patient admissions department or find a more cost-effective alternative
  • Patient accounting personnel spend up to 20 hours a week manually processing forms
  • When forms specifications change, outdated forms are destroyed
Solutions
  • Managing forms electronically in-house saves $36,490 annually
  • Eliminated the need to spend $24,000 on new stamping machines and works with MRHC’s document imaging system to deliver a fast check-in
  • Automating forms processing saves the equivalent of half an FTE by minimizing tedious tasks
  • Printing limited quantities of forms on demand eliminates forms waste

 

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