Healthcare

Generating patient information is easy. Moving it quickly and securely is one of your biggest challenges. You need to understand the most important obstacles slowing down your workflow, and find ways to improve your processes while increasing security and reducing cost.

Lexmark's Healthcare solutions integrate both electronic and hardcopy document output strategies specifically designed for each department within the hospital. These strategies help hospitals dramatically improve patient safety and employee productivity while reducing costs.

Admissions
Nursing Stations
Pharmacy Script Labels
Distributed Document Imaging

Hospitals can streamline the potentially hectic admissions process by capitalizing on Lexmark's digital technology. Consolidating devices and utilizing electronic forms, bar-coded patient information, face sheets, and consent forms allow hospital registration areas to greatly improve effectiveness and patient safety. You can eliminate:

• Standalone Fax Machines
• Copiers
• Preprinted Forms

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Nursing Stations

One of the prime concerns heard from nurses is that they spend too much of their day chasing paper and not enough time with their patients. Here's how you can make nurses jobs easier:

• Improve efficiency and processing procedures
• Increase patient safety
• Increase valuable work space in nursing areas
• Eliminate preprinted forms
• Implement barcodes on required forms

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Pharmacy Script Labels

Lexmark's versatile printers can produce scripts and drug monographs with outstanding results. All prescription information can be printed on one device eliminating the need for multiple devices and preprinted documents. This application allows the pharmacists to spend more time counseling patients and less time chasing documents such as:

• Script labels
• Patient information and advisories
• Warning labels
• Bar-coded labels and receipts

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Distributed Document Imaging

Moving information quickly within any organization is often a challenge. Some healthcare guidelines mandate that you simplify administrative functions while protecting confidential hard-copy output.

To meet these guidelines and keep from becoming bogged down in slow paper-based processes, you should convert paper-based information to digital documents that can be distributed instantly. This streamlining of workflow will help simplify administrative tasks so your healthcare professionals can focus more on taking care of patients.

• Reduce mail time and courier service costs between headquarters and hospital locations
• Increase productivity by automating manual processes
• Improve access to information with digital archiving

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