Health care organizations around the globe are facing an urgent, unprecedented need to cut health care costs while improving quality at the same time. Eliminating paper and paper-based processes is key to achieving these seemingly conflicting goals. Printing, shipping, storing and searching paper documents is not only costly but also makes it impossible to share and access real-time information and make well informed health care decisions.
Kofax enables health care organizations to automate their document-driven processes by capturing all health, patient or financial information at the point of entry, transforming it into actionable information, and routing it to the point of care in a secure and auditable manner. Organizations can use one unified platform to capture and process any type of document, including social security cards, admission forms, claims, EOB forms, invoices, reports, charts, MRIs, EKGs, and X-ray images.
Increase Efficiency
Automatically capture and classify any health, patient and finance document, and route process-ready information to the point of care.
Move to Electronic Health Records
Capture, transform, exchange and archive health information, enabling meaningful use and improving access to ARRA funding.
Reduce Operational and Health Care Costs
Eliminate the handling, shipping and storage of documents, and make service and financial information available at the point of care.
Enable Better Health Care Quality
Share real-time electronic information with patients, nurses and doctors to enable better health care decisions.
Capture Enabled Businesses Process Management
Electronic Health Records
Automatically capture, extract, process and route patient, health and financial information, and enhance your patients' electronic health records with meaningful information. More...
Efficient health records management enables reduced costs and improved health care. The consolidation of all patient, health and financial information into electronic health records enables better informed medical decisions based on real-time access and fast exchange across and beyond health care organizations. Visibility into a patient's treatment history and results helps avoid the costs of providing unnecessary services.
Kofax turns relevant documents into meaningful information and seamlessly integrates it into electronic health records by:
- Providing outstanding scan quality for creating highly legible images from patient admission documents, charts, test reports, MRIs, X-ray images and more. Doctors, nurses and lab employees can trust their patients' health to reliable, high quality digital documents. Standard office equipment — such as low-cost scanners and MFPs in the admissions office or high-volume document scanners in the back office — can be used to protect and enhance existing investments.
- Automatically capturing all relevant documents and data from any device, from any place, in any format, paper or electronic. The Kofax enterprise capture platform offers the scalability to handle hundreds to millions of documents per day and to operate in both centralized and highly distributed environments.
- Automatically classifying documents, extracting metadata, validating information and triggering workflows and processes. Our market leading "learn by example" technology recognizes and extracts relevant information from any document, whether structured, unstructured, image-based or handwritten. It eliminates the need for programming and manual labor.
- Routing meaningful digital information to health care applications and health information systems quickly and securely, thereby enabling physicians, doctors, nurses and lab or administrative employees to access accurate, comprehensive health records of their patients in real time.
- Enabling information from new documents as well as from backfile conversions to be consolidated into meaningful information and routed to electronic health records.
- Tracing and auditing the processing of all documents from point of receipt through to archiving, consistent with policies and regulations for records retention, disposition and privacy. High availability and disaster recovery enable secure and compliant management of and access to records.
- Monitoring performance through real-time metrics on the operational health of the capture system and remote real-time management of system performance to meet throughput requirements.
Automate Processing of Any Document for Any Process
Automate any document driven process with one unified capture platform, including patient admission and the processing of electronic health records, invoices, EOBs, and CMS-1500 or UB-04 claims. More...
Kofax customers in the health care sector benefit from a highly secure and scalable capture platform that can serve a wide variety of document intensive business processes. The Kofax enterprise capture platform automatically captures any type and format of document, transforms it into actionable information, and delivers that information to the right people, processes, applications and backend systems —enabling your organization to become more efficient and significantly reduce costs. Outstanding scanning capabilities for paper documents provide hiqh data quality; high scalability and flexibility allows the system to adapt to changing needs and peak times; and monitoring and tracing capabilities enable an auditable data flow across health care organizations and beyond.
- With Kofax, any document —admission documents; inquiries from patients, insurers or suppliers; charts; lab reports; invoices; contracts; etc. — can be captured at the point of receipt and turned into hiqh quality digital images.
- Health care providers can route the captured information to the relevant information systems or use it to trigger specific processes. Using front-end capture and extracted information to trigger processes helps to significantly increase processing efficiency, data accuracy and information availability, while reducing costs at the same time. It reduces manual labor, paper handling, shipping, storage and searching.
- Documents can be classified automatically, and relevant data can be extracted and seamlessly routed to the appropriate applications for immediate processing. Powerful data validation ensures that only complete and correct documents are routed to the relevant applications or employees.
- Straight-through processing of a patient's test data to the patient record ensures high data accuracy and seamless integration with the relevant application. This process can also be accompanied by the sending of a digital copy to the hospital billing system, so invoicing can be initiated immediately.
- Data input and data flow are fully transparent and data is traceable at each touchpoint across multiple processes and functions, from the point of entry to final archive.
Invoice Processing and Financial Process Automation
Increase efficiency and reduce cost and risk by streamlining the processing of invoices – including exception and approval handling – in a variety of formats and from widely distributed suppliers. More...
Health care organizations have to deal with a high volume of invoices from suppliers of health- and non-health-related goods and services. To make the challenge even more complex, these invoices originate with a vast number of distributed vendors.
The end-to-end automation of invoice processing — including workflow, electronic exchange and seamless integration into a healthcare provider's financial applications — can significantly reduce invoice processing costs and improve cash management.
Invoices can be automatically captured in a consistent and auditable way, no matter where they enter your organization, and no matter in which format (paper, fax, email, e-invoice and so on). All invoices are captured as digital documents at the point of entry, eliminating the need for paper handling.
- Classification of invoices through the intelligent recognition of header and line item information, plus the validation of extracted data, together ensure that only correct and complete invoices are routed to financial applications for highly efficient processing.
- E-invoice processing and supplier integration can remove paper from the transaction altogether, enabling finance organizations to process electronic invoices and seamlessly work with their many, distributed, tier 2 suppliers — providing the benefits of EDI at a fraction of its cost and complexity.
- The system provides real-time integration with ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, and gives finance and business managers performance management capabilities.
- Cash management benefits significantly from visibility into the AP process, real-time status information — including invoices in process, cash requirement, invoices awaiting approval, cash consumption and productivity data — and the ability to trigger corrective measures.
