EMR applications recently emerged as a tool for healthcare providers to consolidate information, reduce costs and improve services. However, many are still relying on complex and outdated software/hardware solutions to manage their document-based communications — what is the way forward? Click through to learn why cloud automation is a secure, reliable and cost-effective solution for streamlining manual processes, improving patient care and meeting the necessary industry regulations. There is a recorded webinar link at the end of the show. Be sure to click the download button in the upper right hand corner to view the entire presentation.

1. Keeping Healthcare Documents Electronic:
How Document
Automation Improves
Patient Care &
Compliance
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2. Introduction — About Esker
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 Esker helps organizations around the world
Quit Paper™ by offering solutions (on-demand
or on-premises) to automate virtually any
manual document process.
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Global headquarters in Lyon, France
In business for 28 years
In “the cloud” for 8 years
3,400+ of healthcare customers and 23
healthcare application partners
- Distributors in over 50 countries
- 4,500+ SaaS-based customers; 50,000+
SaaS-based users
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3. Introduction — About the Topic
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 Document automation
throughout the healthcare
continuum can help
organizations meet their
goals for maintaining
quality patient care and
safety, as well as assist in
the movement to EHR
(Electronic Health Records).
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4. Hot Topics in Healthcare — 2013
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 ICD-10: What ramifications does this
change have for your organization?
 Trying to meet Meaningful Use criteria
for Electronic Health Records
 A push toward linking reimbursement to
cost and quality outcomes
 Healthcare Exchanges
 Medicaid expansion in the states
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5. What’s the Result of So Many Changes
Being Pushed in a Short Time Period?
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 Resources are strained from a financial standpoint.
 Resources are strained from a time standpoint.
 Talent with experience can be hard to come by.
 Requirements that are being stated can be both
confusing and seemingly impossible for compliance
when looking across the technologies in use.
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6. What Has This Resulted In?
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 Organizations are searching for:
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7. What Can Be Done to Assist with
Meeting These Various Goals?
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 Look for areas where a single solution can “fit” in with
multiple systems.
 Find areas where experts are available that have capacity
to avoid having to build or maintain infrastructure.
 Partner with organizations that are already proven in the
field and understand the business climate for healthcare.
 Move away from a “silos” approach to solutions in the
organization towards a more “holistic” approach that can
have overlapping benefits in enterprise initiatives.
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8. Healthcare Information Exchanges
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 Goal: Information to follow a patient where and when it is needed,
across organizational, vendor, and geographic boundaries
 Challenges
 Data exchange standards, lack of interoperability with EHR’s
 Financing, Sustainability, Government Issues
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9. Want to Hear More?
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Click here to watch the full recorded webinar here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/42or7e7ysg0a0dy/131008_Esker_HIMSS_
mHN.wmv?n=61495245
*Be sure to click the Download Button
And learn more about:
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Key Performance Indicators
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Meeting Compliance Goals with Automation
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Solutions to Paper-Driven Bottlenecks
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And more…
For more information on Esker’s
document automation solutions, please visit
http://www.esker.com
or
Call us at 1-800-368-5283
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