EMR Mandate Stage 2 and the Need for Scanning X-Ray Film

By now, we’re all familiar with President Obama’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Mandate. Stage 1 of the mandate did not require medical images to be part of an EMR in order to meet meaningful use qualifications, and while Stage 2 includes it only as a menu option,...

HIPAA Compliant Scanning

If you plan to outsource the scanning of medical records or X-ray film, then you need to understand what HIPAA compliance requirements apply before you send those records out.  When you move from paper and film to the process of electronically storing, transmitting or...

HIPAA Compliance, Scanning and EMRs

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, not only regulates health insurance coverage when employees leave their current place of employment, it also stipulates the quality, security, and privacy standards for electronic medical...

Medical Records Scanning and HIPAA Compliance

If you’re healthcare organization is going paperless with Electronic Medical Records (EMR), then you’re aware that you’ll have to convert your paper records to digital system.  This means a lot of document scanning! One easy solution way to accomplish this is through...

What to Do with Film X-Rays and your New EMR

If you’re a healthcare organization that has recently gone digital, but you still have X-Ray film, then your workflow is not as efficient as it should be.  Most commonly moving to digital patient records means using an EMR solution that enables healthcare workers to...

X-ray Scanner to Digital Images

There are many reasons why a healthcare organization decides to purchase an X-ray scanner and begins to digitize their medical X-ray films, not the least of which is converting to Electronic Medical Records (EMR).  Because scanning the x-ray film is one part of the...