Healthcare Document Management
The NHS and other Healthcare service providers are facing great challenges in providing a cost effective service within tight funding allowances.
Patient records management has been highlighted by the Government as a key area in which the NHS must become more efficient in order to assist in the reduction of waiting times and to reduce administration costs.
Records are a valuable resource because of the information they contain. That information is only usable if it is correctly recorded in the first place, is regularly up-dated, and is easily accessible when it is needed.
Information is essential to the delivery of high quality evidence-based health care on a day-to-day basis and an effective records management service ensures that such information is properly managed and is available:
- to support patient care and continuity of care
- to support sound administrative and managerial decision making,
- as part of the knowledge base for NHS services
- to meet legal requirements, including requests from patients
- under access to health records legislation
All NHS records are public records under the terms of the Public Records Act 1958 S.3(1)-(2). Chief Executives and senior managers of all NHS bodies are personally accountable for records management within their organisation.
How can DCS document management and scanning services help you?
- Scanning backfiles of patient records to electronic format
- Implementing multi-site document management solutions
- Patient surveys
- Improving records keeping
- Enabling information sharing between professions and work units
- Allow records to be treated as corporate assets rather than personal data
- Improving co-ordination between paper and electronic information
- Maintaining confidentiality whilst legitimately freeing
- Speeding up and tracking information requests under FOI Act
Further Information on our document management services
Business solutions
FileStore EDM
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