Standard Register launches InnovaTOUR ’99 workshops
Document management company Standard Register (Dayton, Ohio) has launched what it terms an initiative "to educate key healthcare professionals how to use technical innovation to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of paperwork." Called InnovaTOUR ’99, the program will consist of six interactive workshops that will feature a "virtual hospital" that guides participants through critical advancements in document automation and workflow.
The virtual hospital is designed to give full perspective to ways to move information electronically, and advance patient care toward the use of computerized patient records. Ted Valentini, Standard Register director of healthcare program implementation, said that workshop attendees will be shown how to move information faster thus providing more time and attention toward patient care.
"We’ve developed a forum that not only teaches healthcare professionals how our technologies work," Valentini said, "but also how to tailor solutions to reap maximum benefits in achieving specific departmental and organizational goals."
Upon entering the virtual hospital, bar-coded medical ID cards will be scanned, triggering document-related activity within hospital departments including admissions, nursing, ancillary departments, a business office, satellite facility and medical records.
A team of experts in engineering, development and service then guides each virtual patient through the system while sharing a variety of applications for formatting and outputting documents at various locations throughout hospitals. Demonstrations include those of advanced technologies that enable hospitals to communicate efficiently with less paper through bar codes, print on demand, electronic forms and document kitting.
The first workshop will be held June 15 in Philadelphia, with subsequent workshops held in Dayton, OH; the Newark/New York area, Chicago, Detroit, and Memphis, TN, through July 20.
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