title: Paper trails. Document management is no silver bullet, but it can patch holes as hospitals transition to paperless.
abstract: Hospitals are leveraging content management to ease the transition from a paper-based to electronic environment. Document management is used to scan, index and archive medical records and financial documents. Even fully integrated health systems receive outside documents such as lab results and referrals that must be incorporated into the patient record. The data in scanned documents cannot be used for trending purposes without manual work. The market for natural language processing, a tool used to extract data elements from scanned documents, could ramp up significantly in the near future.
authors.forename: Kate Huvane
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Gamble
mesh_terms: D057171:American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States