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eCapture
Helping Medical Billing Company Eliminate
Paper Storage Needs
Apollo
Information Services is one of the largest medical billing companies in
the United States. Processing medical
billing for 39 hospitals with 1.5 million patient visits per year, Apollo
receives over 11 million document pages yearly. Apollo currently
stores over 15 million document pages on line and counting!
Apollo
Information Services uses Bar Code software developed by Holt Systems to
create coding for the medical charts. The
charts are scanned using Captovation's eCapture and ecScan volume handling
software on Kodak and Bell & Howell high speed scanners.
Captovation's ecAutofile and ecCommit servers read the bar codes
and index the charts into the Optika eMedia Document Management and
Workflow Software for chart viewing and routing for coding and billing
processes.
Apollo
has over a Terabyte of RAID Hard Disk Storage for the document images and
Microsoft SQLServer 7.0 databases.
It is important to note that Apollo chose RAID for its low overall
cost of maintenance and speed.
Optical Jukeboxes often are less reliable, slower and more
difficult to back up than a RAID solution.
Apollo
is very excited and proud of the solution provided to them by Holt
Systems.
The system has saved Apollo over $300,000 annually in employee and
storage costs alone. Apollo estimates the system has kept them from hiring
an additional 10 people, eliminated storage costs, and reduced employee
stress related to document handling.
More
important than direct cost savings is the reduction in time it takes for
chart requests.
The time to pull charts has been reduced dramatically.
In the billing business speed equals money since every day that
goes unresolved could equal a claim that will need to be written off.
Apollo
currently has 100 concurrent users located in Ft. Myers, Florida and
Traverse City, Michigan.
They anticipate growth to 250 concurrent users in the year 2001 and
the addition of workflow and Internet scanning at the hospitals.
Workflow will eliminate the manual flow of charts for billing and
place them in an electronic routing system.
Internet based scanning by the hospitals will eliminate shipping
costs, speed up the time to enter documents into the Workflow and reduced
effort for the hospitals. Apollo is currently the largest drop off point
for UPS of Paper Documents in Ft. Myers.
The additional savings from these add-ons will exceed $500,000.
Apollo
Information Services was extremely pleased with the implementation
time. The system was up and running in less than two months
from the time of purchase. Integration projects were completed
on schedule and as promised.
Users
were able to be trained on the use of the system in less than an hour and
were excited and relieved with the system's ease of use. IT
staff was able to implement procedures for the new system easily with the
training provided by Holt Systems.
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