This is partly due to the tremendous amount of paper documentation that doctors need to complete to provide patient care. However, for the past 60 years they have been almost nonexistent. Making House Calls Possibleĭoctor house calls were common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gresham Bayne on his way to a patient’s home (left), administering bedside care (center), and sending the information back to the servers from his car (right). “We have the tools now to reduce our paper use while also streamlining the patient registration process at our hospitals.” “Using LiveCycle ES products, our solution is making it easier to create, process, and manage the paperwork required to care for patients at home.” In both cases, Adobe LiveCycle ES was used to present and process e-forms, and to gather data for further process automation.
And the hospital staff was able to reduce the costs and time it took to admit people for treatment.
Gresham Bayne’s paperless system has enabled him to provide in-home care that was unachievable with a traditional paper-based system. In this chapter, you will meet a doctor and the IT staff of a regional hospital and learn how they replaced piles of paperwork with their new paperless systems.ĭr. As the debate continues, some people have already taken action to improve services and reduce costs. A great deal of discussion about health care is taking place in the media and in the halls of government.
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