Healthcare

At a time when malpractice insurance premiums and operating costs are increasing but insurance payments are decreasing, medical professionals are seeking ways to continue providing high-quality medical care while keeping costs down. One aspect of practice--records management--can sap labor productivity and valuable space. The question is, What's the remedy? The answer is Confidential Records Management, Inc.

CRMI provides cost-effective, scalable, healthcare-specific solutions for data and document management.

The trained professionals at CRMI have the expertise and secure, humidity- and climate-controlled facilities to handle all forms of business and healthcare records. Document types include the following:

• Data stored on CD, DVD, tape, microfiche, or microfilm
• Dental impressions
• Diagnostic films such as cardiac catheterization, tracings, and all forms of x-ray
• Human resources and worker's compensation records
• Infection control and corporate compliance records
• Insurance Explanations of Benefits
• Laboratory reports and slides: histology, pathology, cytology
• Patient records (paper, tape tracings, and pictures)
• Quality assurance and risk management records
• Tracings: EEG, ECG, fetal monitor
• Videos and all types of telemetry

Options:

CRMI tailors its services to the client's needs, including the following:

• Open-shelf, terminal digit, or client-specific filing systems
• Indexing and file-level inventory of patient records (for easy confirmation of receipt and refiling and more efficient purges)
• File room services
• Moving, inventory, purging, indexing, and storage (one-time or as needed)
• Filing of single page documents into existing records, including backlogged work
• Storage of records by the carton such as for inactive files, business records, financial records, and personnel files
• Designation of records by departmental type, ensuring controlled access by authorized individuals

With CRMI, records storage is organized and efficient. Retrieval of your records is even easier. Clients have access to records 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so whether the request is routine or a matter of life and death, CRMI provides rapid, accurate records retrieval. Documents are delivered by a professional records management representative to ensure safety, confidentiality, and prompt access.

CRMI understands the regulatory and accrediting body requirements you face, including those of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and HIPAA. We offer consultation and training regarding HIPAA and assistance in developing policies and procedures for standard operating practices.

Facts

• CRMI offers digital imaging for conversion of paper, electronic, microfilm, and optical disc records.
• CRMI provides locked security bins--at no charge--for documents to be destroyed.
• CRMI provides secure on-site or off-site shredding of records.
• CRMI can complete release of information requests in a timely, cost-effective, and secure manner.
• CRMI will transform your worst records storage nightmare into a well-organized system.