Alaska Medical Record Retention Laws & Finding a Medical Records Custodian in Alaska
Alaska medical record retention laws & finding a medical records custodian in Alaska for providers and hospitals.
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Can a Physician Release Another Physician’s Records?
When a patient transfers from one healthcare provider to another, their electronic medical records must be transferred as well. For physicians, this can be a complicated process. What if the patient has records from a previous provider? Can a physician release another physician’s records? If one physician transfers another physician’s
Example Physician Retirement Letter to Patients
If you are unsure what to include in a physician retirement letter, we are here to help. In this article, we will provide advice for crafting a letter that you can personalize and send to patients to announce your retirement.
The Definitive Checklist for Closing Your Medical Practice
When you’re ready to close your medical practice, you want the transition to be as smooth as possible. However, there are quite a few legal and logistical steps that need to be taken care of before your last day. Learn our recommended steps for closing a practice and access a PDF copy of the checklist we use.
How to Get Your Medical Records from a Medical Practice that Closed
Introduction In a clinic where your doctor used to work and kept all your health documents, closes his business and moves away. What would you do to get previous medical records from them? It is important to keep copies of all your medical records because you never know when you
Document Scanning In-House vs. Custodian of Records
Over the years, we have spoken to many offices that have made the decision to scan their own records – rather than hiring outside assistance -to save time and money. Unfortunately, the reality is that there are actually a number of hidden costs associated with document scanning in-house, which is
Myths of going Paperless: Cost of Technology
The cost of new technology is one of the biggest obstacles in converting to a paperless office. Hardware upgrades including new computers, scanners, printers, and software are necessities when converting to an electronic office. However, the cost of technology is often misconstrued. Affordable hardware is more available today than ever before.
Document Scanning and the Legal Office
The typical law office has paper up to their ears, it is time to take a good hard look and find a way to minimize your time dealing with countless paper records. Other a couple years we have met with a dozen or so law firms that are thinking about going
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Get started todayMyths of Going Paperless: Changing Workflow
People are creatures of habit. Especially, if these habits have been building for years or even decades. This fact is often the most used excuse to prevent an office from changing the paper-based workflow they’ve been comfortable with for years. However, paperless workflow and electronic documents are becoming more and more popular over
Document Scanning and Then What?
Many people have asked me “so we have these files scanned, what do we exactly do with them now”. Well, that is the most important question you have. I am going to talk about finding the right software that fits your needs. Each office has completely different workflows, and that
Should You OCR Your Files?
Before I go on about whether or not to OCR your scanned documents, let us talk about what exactly OCR is. Optical Character Recognition (OCR), takes your image, for instance, your PDF, and converts all written words into encoded text. Which will then make it possible to search for text throughout
Myths of going Paperless: Is it Cost Effective?
There is an idea out there that the process of converting to an electronic office is too expensive and not cost effective. Costly paperless software’s, new workflows, and hardware purchases make converting to an electronic office seem like a daunting financial task. However, if the money spent on this process is seen
10 Tips for Document Scanning
Many people do not understand the undertaking of getting your files scanned and converting them into a digital format. Here are some tips I will pass along to you and to think about. Know exactly how you want to be able to use your scanned documents. Always look into OCRing
Medical Records Scanning: The Future of Storage
Offsite storage companies have been thriving for years on the need for medical offices to archive medical records. These companies profit off storage costs and retrieval fees. With the new push of the HITECH Act, many medical offices are moving towards a largely digital world. This move has caused a rise
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