Addressing the Hybrid Medical Record
Today leading hospitals depend on electronic health record (EHR) solutions for access to critical patient information. Yet, these same organizations continue to rely on paper documents, such as paper chart records, consultation forms, progress notes, and other clinical documentation.

Streamline Health’s accessANYware™ document management solutions bring these documents online and seamlessly integrate them with the electronic patient record. This gives clinicians access to more complete medical records, anytime, anywhere from within their clinical applications, saving time, enhancing patient care, and improving regulatory compliance. To deliver a flexible, integrated solution, Streamline Health has developed its Streamline Health Integration Tools (STRM-IT™) solution to enable accessANYware to support clinical information system interfaces.

Improving Workflow through Integration
Hospital benefit from a comprehensive solution that manages documents from within all of their enterprise software solutions and that streamlines and improves the efficiency of workflows. This Streamline Health integrated solution leverages technology to enable better patient care through:

• A more complete patient record—to gain the full picture of each patient’s medical history that is critical to effective treatment, hospitals and clinics need patient records that include information from their patient care system.
• Integration with existing applications—healthcare systems have heterogeneous IT environments that include clinical systems as well as financial systems for revenue cycle management.
• Automated workflows—healthcare organizations have numerous workflows that require them to route patient documents. These workflows include completion of the chart by physicians, coding, release of information, and tracking charts.
• HIPAA compliance—by providing access to documents in accordance with HIPAA regulations for privacy and security and that can be prepared to comply with additional regulations.
• Scalability and reliability—the system must also scale to support additional documents and users, and be reliable so as to support critical patient care on a 24/7 basis.

Benefits of Online Health Records
By integrating Streamline Health’s accessANYware and workflow solutions with their current clinical, financial and administrative applications, hospitals can achieve the following benefits:

• Save physicians’ time through remote chart access to pertinent patient information

• Improve patient care decisions with ease of access to comprehensive health information

• Enable teams of physicians and other providers to access charts simultaneously from multiple locations to improve team care

• Allow coders and clinicians to work remotely via Web technology
  

• Increase staff productivity by eliminating time consuming filing of charts

• Decrease chart delinquency rates and suspension struggles

• Empower users to make care-focused, cost-effective decisions

• Comply with regulatory requirements by speeding chart completion, and by controlling access to documents through strict role-based security