The study will identify:
- Business objectives
- Current business environment
- Documents to be included in this solution
- Initial end-users requirements
- Forms automation
- Indexing and retrieval requirements
- HIPAA/Security requirements
- Disaster recovery requirements
Sentry Healthcare Services consultants perform on-site reviews of your document capture requirements as a first step in delivering a system tailored to your facility’s needs. During the on-site analysis, our consultants will meet with executive management and appropriate staff, to determine the hospital’s goals for the implementation of electronic documentation.
Once current forms are identified and categorized we will perform a detailed workflow and process review for all forms or selected processes with the facility staff.
Recommendations for workflow and process changes, including form elimination, addition or redesign, will be detailed in a final report. We will also review archiving/storage solutions as well as hardware and software requirements to accomplish management goals.
After onsite visits are completed, we provide a detailed report of our findings including costs associated with our recommendations and an implementation plan designed to achieve the hospital’s goals for electronic documentation.
Sentry offers an affordable patient ID card system that can:
- Improve patient safety
- Improve patient loyalty
- Save time and money at your hospital
Easy, compact and affordable, our patient ID card system can bring big benefits to your hospital. Creating a card adds just three to five minutes to your admitting process and then saves three to five minutes every time a patient uses it.
The software, camera, printer and cards make up a system that easily fits at the admitting station. We custom design the card for your hospital as part of a simple set-up process. You can even bring value to the back of the card by letting community healthcare partners use that space to offer discounts or other promotions. This reflects well on the hospital, helps inspire patient loyalty and gives patients another reason to make sure they always have their cards handy.
Eliminate the risk and waste created by duplicate medical records
Duplicate medical records are a hazard to patient safety, open the hospital to potential liability, waste the time of staff who have to make sure they’re pulling the right files, add to file-room costs if you haven’t converted to electronic health records (EHRs) and add to your conversion costs if EHRS are in your future.
Sentry Custom Electronic Forms allow customers to eliminate the expenses associated with the design, printing and inventory of their paper forms, replacing them with computer generated documents.
Our design personnel can create customized electronic replicas of your current or redesigned forms mapped directly into your routine processes. We also offer access to our catalogue of standard forms that can be used to replace, supplement, or fill a known void in documentation requirements.
In addition to the direct cost savings associated with computerization of your forms, this service can create a significant indirect cost savings related to filing and storing your documents by simply allowing you to print/not print or electronically store a specific document.
Sentry Healthcare Services can provide a Return on Investment calculation for your facility demonstrating the quick return this service offers.
With the implementation of Electronic Medical Records, coupled with the business problems created by working with records that are part electronic and part hardcopy, many facilities have begun scanning projects to electronically capture historical paper records.
Selecting an efficient input management process for your document repository can mean the difference between realizing meaningful savings and just automating your filing system.
Sentry Healthcare Services consultants can help design a system that will pay for itself through significant labor savings and improved information flow. Our team steps in, analyzes your processes, goals, technical architecture, and existing products to provide creative, process-based solutions.
Our certified scanning services are designed to capture historical patient records in electronic form. We also provide the project management and technical expertise to integrate scanned documents into your electronic medical record. Once integrated, old scanned documents can be delivered back to you or hosted at a secure site.
Our services offer clients a quick return on investment by optimizing their daily processes. The benefits gained from our services result in increased productivity, performance and profitability.