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Digital Archiving
What’s
Digital Archiving?
What’s the
Patient/Provider/Practice benefit?
What’s the
COST?
What’s Primary Technologies’
Recommendation?
Digital Archiving is the process of converting data on paper to an electronic media to be preserved, indexed and archived (long term storage). The pages are electronically copied (scanned) and saved instead of being printed out. This data can be saved on your hard drive, on a server, on CD/DVD, or on the Internet.
Patient/Provider/Practice benefits:
conversion to an electronic media: saves space, promotes organization, makes for easy portability and improves access. For storage of the records of a retiring Provider, or for date purging, or record selling, or organizing into a virtual library, or for disaster protection, the best option is Digital Archiving. It even protects against loss from misfiling.
COST
varies with several factors. A partial list of factors includes: the number of pages (both sides?), the number of indexing fields (name, ss#, phone#, DOB, etc), the extent of preparation (removal of staples, copying of poor originals), transportation costs, choice of type of storage media, typed or hand written or illustrations, immediacy of need. Cost may vary from $.08 - .15 per page.
Recommendations:
Primary Technologies has selected vendors after reviewing their products, quality and service. All services provided thru Primary Technologies
should result in cost savings and improved service.
Medical Information Management