Despite widespread technology advances, the majority of healthcare providers still rely on manual processes and outdated platforms to exchange medical information, and imaging centers are no exception. At least 75% of patient records and referrals are still sent via fax between health systems or shared in non-digital forms, requiring documents like imaging orders to be manually rekeyed into the EHR through labor-intensive, error-prone workflows. Manually rekeying data isn’t just slow; it introduces clinical risk. A typo in a patient’s ID or a miskeyed ICD-10 code can lead to insurance denials at best, and at worst, delays in critical diagnoses or imaging performed on the wrong body part.
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