Is it cost-effective to use the EDITS Scan program?
Unequivocally yes. If NCR records cost $0.17 to print and the average ED record has five such pages, the cost to produce these records is $0.85 per patient. At a licensing fee of $0.60 per patient, scanning saves $0.20 per patient just in printing costs assuming a printing cost of $0.01 per page for single-page records without NCR copies. The cost of mailing copies of ED records to medical staff members is conservatively $1 each when labor, envelope and postage are taken into consideration. By far, the major savings associated with scanned records relate to personnel time associated with “breaking down” NCR records, alphabetizing, reconciling, distributing, filing, storing, retrieving, copying and destroying them. Unfortunately, it is most difficult to place a dollar figure on this saving, but it can reasonably be expected to be at least several dollars per record. The savings associated with use of scanned records are virtually doubled when records must be sent to off-site billing com
