From Electronic Document Management to EHR

摘要

When Banner Health's Colorado Region began drawing up plans for a new outpa-tient diagnostic center in 2001, the facili-es staff kept asking me how much square footage to set aside for medical records processing in the new facility. My answer each time—"none"—may have surprised them. However, I knew that if we set aside space for medical records, people surely would start storing paper records there. Next, we probably would have needed an FTE for filing and processing. I stuck to my original position, and today the Summit View Diagnostic Center generates only paper copies of consents and orders. In the next few months, Summit View Diagnostic Center will start scanning consents and orders, so that all documents are electronically delivered to our central Health Information Services office at North Colorado Medical Center (NCMC).