On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Julie Fleming wrote:
 
<My organization is attempting to go paperless with their medical
records into an Electronic Medical Records system.  We have one record
type which is produced on thermal paper which I'm told cannot be
scanned.  Does anyone have any experience with imaging thermal paper?
What recommendations can you make as to how this might be accomplished?
Thank you!>

 

Without knowing more about the record type you refer to and how it
relates to the larger system, it's difficult to give a solid suggestion,
but I hope this is helpful.  Just because they're thermal printouts
doesn't automatically translate into an unscannable image as far as I'm
aware.

 

For those printouts that currently exist, unless the thermal images have
faded to the point that that not even a photocopied reproduction will
render a good image, any good production scanner and software package or
service bureau should be able to render a good image.  Don't forget the
index.  Also take into account the need to reproduce color if color is
involved and is a significant element.  If the records are faded beyond
the capabilities of a scanner/software package and reasonable
cost-effective measures to capture (and index) the images, they may be
subject to being a hardcopy element of the total file.  

 

From a day - forward perspective, my thought is that if a piece of
equipment is producing a printout, why can't the information producing
said printout be captured as an electronic file, in a spreadsheet for
example, or an entry to a database?  It would seem a more cost-effective
method of capture.  

 

I hope this is helpful.

 

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Jim Mullen, Company Records Specialist - Engineering
Spirit Aerosystems Inc.
Tech. Services & Process Config., Data & Records
P.O. Box 780008, M/C K32-02
Wichita, KS  67278
(316) 526-0069
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