Electronic Medical Records
The acceptance of scanned documents in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
is essential in the delivery of cost effective and high quality health care.
Across the globe, paper patient records are being scanned and entered into
Hospital Information Systems (HIS) databases. Quality digital conversion
practices are vital to successful diagnosis and to the veracity of medical
research based on these records.
The amount of patient records earmarked for digitization is
very large and represents a very significant technology and management problem.
The volume of data often requires outsourcing of much of the
the digitization work. Confirming the image quality produced by such outside services is time-consuming and expensive,
and is often not given the attention that is required for such a critical application.
Increasingly, members of the medical community are voicing the need to provide a measure of EMR veracity.
Certifi Pedigree® addresses this need by providing:
- The tools to process scanned medical records for large scale digitization projects.
- The tools needed to assess EMR image quality against standards - either internally
generated standards or those recommended by academic or governmental groups.
- The tools needed to immediately
understand the impact of image processing on the EMR image quality.
- A robust image analysis engine that alerts the user when quality problems arise and
the tools needed to fix these problems.
- The tools for producing higher image quality, leading to improved OCR performance rates and higher accuracy of the data search and mining tools that scan the
EMR files for pertinent content.
- Quality measurements that are embedded directly in the EMR file so the quality state is always linked
with the image data wherever it goes.
- Security features to prevent tampering of the EMR image data, the image processing script used to
prepare the data, and the quality measurements for the image. An embedded digital signature
can be validated using a public key while you maintain the
private key, assuring you or anyone who uses your data that the data integrity has been maintained.