Insights for Healthcare from Standard Register
Summer 2007 vol. 2, no. 2

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Upcoming Events

On Tuesday, July 31 at 2 pm, Standard Register is sponsoring a Web seminar, Building a Foundation for EMR: The Critical Role of Document Workflow. To receive details about this informative session which is being produced in partnership with Healthcare IT NewsWeek, subscribe to our Event alerts now.
 

Quarterly Survey

What document management issue concerns you most?
Inadequate patient identification
Missing consent forms and patient documentation
Lack of forms standardization/compliance
Identity/Insurance fraud
Labor-intensive indexing of paper documents
Integrity and security of patient data

BEST PRACTICES

Casa Grande Lays Foundation for Improved Patient Care and EMR

The vision of a healthcare system with fully electronic medical records is compelling. Free from the error-prone, labor-intensive demands of paper, there is an opportunity to improve patient outcomes. That certainly was the appeal for Casa Grande Regional Medical Center. However, CGRMC realized it would need to abandon its antiquated, blue card system if it wanted to achieve that vision.

Read how this non-profit, community-owned hospital tackled the challenge of automating its documents for EMR while introducing greater accuracy and productivity to its processes.

 

FEATURES

EMR and Regulatory Changes Have Costly Consequences for the In-House Print Center

Though once considered a convenient, cost-effective means of printing the myriad of clinical forms used by hospitals, today's in-house print shop or reprographics center is hard to cost-justify. With EMR eroding print volume, equipment is underutilized. What steps can you take to hold the line on costs?

This article offers insights for managing your in-house print center costs. Read it now or share it with a colleague.

Six Ideas to Build Patient Loyalty and Optimize Marketing Results

In one of our recent quarterly surveys, Insight readers affirmed: improving Marketing ROI is the number one challenge they face. This timely article hits that issue head on. It presents six different ways healthcare marketers are using personalization and customization to build patient loyalty and optimize marketing results.

Put on your creative hat and join us for this marketing session. It just may spark a few ideas you can use!

 

RISK MANAGEMENT UPDATE

Momentum Builds for Standardizing Color-Coded Wristbands

A near-fatal mix-up in Pennsylvania has prompted healthcare professionals across the country to take a long and hard look at the way they identify patients.  Read this industry update to learn the steps some are taking to standardize color-coded wristbands within their states and regions.

 

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