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Paperless offices not so paperless despite tech advances: health care industry moving toward it, though.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 17-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The electronic dream of being able to conduct business in a "paperless office" may still be a long way off for many fields in Mississippi, but various healthcare entities are moving closer to that ideal in their quest for more efficient patient care and a better streamlining of office paperwork--making the electronic patient chart a reality in more and more health care settings.

One long-term care facility to go to a totally paperless medical record system is the newly-opened Methodist Specialty Care Center (MSCC) in Flowood. With a 60-bed facility for long-term patients, the new hospital utilizes wireless technology to allow all patient care to be charted at bedside and stored in a totally digital format, said Bobby Stigler, director of long-term care at MSCC.

"It's taken all the data-gathering off the paper system to a computer system," he said.

The system, called Smart...

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