Electronic medical records (EMR) are now a fact of life for the healthcare industry. Medical providers and healthcare facilities understand the key role that digitizing paper-based patient health records plays in achieving HIPAA compliance. In addition, scanning drives efficiency in delivering patient care and cost savings.

IG2 can work with your organization to design and implement an imaging program that meets your business and patient care objectives while staying on budget. IG2’s medical records imaging services eliminate the inherent delays and inefficiencies, significant up-front costs and ongoing personnel distractions associated with an in-house approach. You can focus on delivering patient care and running your organization, while IG2 handles the conversion of your medical records.

IG2’s medical records imaging services provide you with:

• Predictable and controlled conversion costs
• Regulatory compliance
• 24/7/365 secure online access to files
• Enhanced information security
• Efficient file retrieval that enables responsive patient care
• Improved collaboration between healthcare professionals
• Cost savings through removal of onsite records storage
• Time savings in file retrievals
• Fast implementation with minimal up-front costs

IG2 understands that every healthcare organization faces unique challenges in managing its physical medical records. We implement solutions that meet your business and patient care delivery objectives. Other issues we can address in designing a program are:

• Storing hard copy records with IG2 and only scanning medical records at the time they are needed
• Assistance with processing release of information requests using IG2’s Scan on Demand service
• Converting newly created paper medical records into digital format
• Managing and imaging your organization’s non-medical business records

IG2 can scan all types of medical records, including:

• Birth records
• Immunization records
• Lab results
• Prescriptions/medications
• Billing information
• Insurance records
• X-ray, MRI or other diagnostic and imaging results
• Physician notes and correspondence