Guide to Healthcare Printing Solutions & ECM
More Patient Care. Less Paperwork.
More than 3,000 healthcare organizations rely on Gordon Flesch Company (GFC) for their printing and content management needs. Should you?
Read on to learn more about the benefits of Managed Print Services (MPS) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for healthcare.
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Managed Print & ECM — Ideal Healthcare Solutions
Ensure HIPAA Compliance and Improve Efficiency
Patient care and privacy are top priorities for healthcare professionals. GFC’s Managed Print and ECM solutions help clinics and hospitals ensure compliance and minimize administrative work, allowing you to spend more time taking care of patients instead of patient care.
How Much Do HIPAA Violations Cost?
Depending on the severity of the violation, healthcare providers may be fined up to
$50,000 per violation HIPAA Journal
The average cost of a data breach is $4.24 million. Average healthcare data breaches
cost more than twice as much IBM
Healthcare
Printing Benefits
Vast amounts of paperwork circulate through healthcare facilities. Secure printing, scanning and routing of documents is critical. Modern print technology offers the following benefits and features:
- Pull printing that only prints when authorized users scan their card key access
- Secure document scanning and routing directly to an email or ECM system
- Special shields to block the view of passers-by
- Lockable trays to protect confidential patient information
- Remote monitoring to detect issues and maintain secure network connections
- Proactive onsite service visits and automated just-in-time delivery of toner and supplies with imageCARE+
- Freed-up storage space for toner and consolidated printer fleets
- Active print security support and updates
Healthcare
ECM Benefits
Enterprise Content Management software manages, stores and organizes business documents in a secure and searchable repository, and is compatible with existing business applications, allowing healthcare professionals to:
- View and update patient records in real time
- Review a patient’s medications, electronic medical and health records (EMR and EHR), physician notes, lab results and more
- Improve communication between nurses, physicians, surgeons, specialists and others
- Minimize medical errors due to unknown information
- Have built-in audit trails and retrieve compliance documents quickly
- Empower administrative workers to improve accuracy of coding, billing and insurance
- Track supply inventory to replenish medical supplies, order equipment, manage delivery and distribution and more
- Integrate with most EMR and other healthcare-specific applications including:
- Athenahealth
- AdvancedMD
- Drchrono
- eClinicalWorks
- Kareo
- CareCloud
- And many others, including legacy systems!
"They went above and beyond expectations. It was an uneventful installation, which is the best possible thing you can say about any installation of new technology.” Sauk Prairie, Healthcare
Specialized Healthcare
Printing Products and Services
Whether printing consent forms and appointment summaries, or self-adhesive labels for patient identification and care instructions, your critical services and tight schedules demand printers that work when you need them. A business technology and print assessment from an experienced healthcare print provider will help you determine exactly which type of printer you need in each area of your facility.
"We’re doing the same work with fewer printers. We’re just making better use of the resources we have." Velocity Urgent Care
Healthcare Printing Case Study
UW Health
UW Health of the University of Wisconsin-Madison serves more than 600,000 patients annually and employs approximately 20,000 staff across dozens of sites. This healthcare giant used to purchase print devices as needed and added them to its increasingly complex networked environment. With GFC’s Managed Print Services program, they:
- Recovered $300 per device in consumables
- Produced 10–15% less waste from abandoned print jobs
- Reduced their printer fleet with 800 fewer printers
“When you look at the cost per page of the Gordon Flesch Company’s managed print service versus what we were paying for our non-managed printers a couple of years ago, this is a total no-brainer.” Blanchard Valley Health System
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Free Business Technology Assessment
Many healthcare facilities have had increasing demands on their staff and IT personnel in recent years. Working with a managed services provider can help take one more thing off your plate and free-up staff time to focus on critical functions.
Contact the print and ECM experts at Gordon Flesch Company for a free assessment today. We’re here to help.
Dig Deeper
Learn more about how Managed Print Services and ECM technology solutions can benefit your healthcare facility and, ultimately, your patients. Check out these additional resources.