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Article: Paperless Cure.(Industry Trend or Event)
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Pediatric practice uses ASP to reduce A/R cycle by 56 percent and cut claims denial rate by 50 percent.
Swapping automation for paper is a big decision for any medical practice. Couple that with the prospect of using an application service provider (ASP) to deliver and support the necessary software, and the decision's significance increases substantially.
But the Children's Medical Center (CMC) of Middletown, OH, a five physician pediatric practice with 15,000 patients, faced serious paper-based problems--serious enough to warrant a decision of substantial proportion.
Problems from Paper
Until last year, CMC staff used multiple, ...