Beaumont Hospital is a large academic teaching hospital located 5 km north of Dublin city center. They provide emergency and acute care services in 54 medical specialties to a local community of around 290,000 people, employing over 3,000 staff.
The Challenge
An inefficient filing system at Beaumont made it difficult for health care workers who needed quick and easy access to patient records. Staff opted to keep paper records that were stored off-site. If a doctor or nurse needed to see them for a returning patient or if they were needed for a legal claim, then the file had to be physically retrieved from the archive and picked up by a courier; a time-consuming process.
The Solution With Ergo's Scan & Index Manager, documents were scanned and indexed in Microsoft SharePoint for easy search and retrieval. The implementation was risk-free and well-planned because Ergo built the system in-house first, replicating Beaumont's off-site environment before implementing it at the hospital.
The implementation of Ergo's Scan and Index Manager system has provided tangible productivity gains and cost savings for Beaumont Hospital. Physicians, nurses and administrators have robust systems that allow them to retrieve files in about 10 seconds compared to 30 minutes with the old system.
Via: ErgoGroup.ie
