Digitizing Legacy Paper Medical Records
Healthcare practices transitioning to electronic health records must digitize years of paper charts, lab results, and handwritten notes. These documents are critical patient records that require careful handling and organized digital storage.
Workflow
- Sort paper records by patient and document type
- Scan documents using a high-speed document scanner at 300 DPI
- Use the Image Rotator to correct any mis-fed or skewed pages
- Use the Image to PDF Converter to create multi-page PDFs for each patient's chart
- Use PDF Metadata Editor to tag each file with patient ID, date range, and document type
- Use PDF Compression to reduce storage requirements for the EHR system
- Upload the digitized records to the electronic health record system
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