PDF Healthcare

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Permalink Reply by Betsy Fanning on May 14, 2009 at 11:42pm

As a follow-on to the Best Practices Guide for Healthcare, AIIM produced an Implementation Guide providing examples of how PDF can be used for healthcare records. You can download this guide at www.aiim.org/pdfh. The committee is looking for use cases that they can include in the next version of the Implementation Guide. If you have any use cases you would like included, please send them to me.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Jahn on May 25, 2009 at 11:09am

I am trying to learn how Physicians offices can move from paper forms to digital forms. What have you seen ?

1. how do the office managers convert their paper form into a PDF Form so it can be filled out onto a computer ?

-- do you provide this as a service? I have heard from several offices that they use Microsoft Word - has anyone seen this ?

-- do you provide a name or company outside that would do this for the healthcare office?

-- do you suggest the office worker learn how to do this themselves?
(This is not a simple thing to learn how to do !)

-- do you tell them to contact a medical form company where they purchase new forms to replace their paper forms?

I am not just looking for feedback on "Best Practices" here - just looking to hear back on what people have encountered - even if the approach is "we fill out the form on paper and scan it" or "we made a PDF form, and we then print that to PDF"...what is happening out there ?

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