I remember how I spent the first Earth Day – April 22, 1970. Miss Hart took our class outside to spend the afternoon – we picked up litter, hugged trees, and planted a time capsule. It was all very groovy – we were celebrating what we considered to be a holiday for hippies. Today, 38 years later, environmental awareness has spread far beyond elementary schools and college campuses. It’s hard to imagine a workplace without a recycling plan – for paper, cans, or plastic.

You can make a commitment to reduce waste in many ways. For instance, customers using the CPR+ Scan module see a significant reduction in paper by switching to electronic Delivery Tickets. Another example is the CPR+ Document Management System (DMS). With DMS, when a patient referral sheet is faxed, the document is received into the system, attached to the patient’s record and is immediately available for review by any team member with the proper rights to see it.

Thanks to the CPR+ DMS, many of our customers are “paperless” or are working toward that goal. Chick Todd, at Hawaii Home Infusion Associates in Honolulu, has been using CPR+ for over 11 years. “As remote as we (the Hawaiian Islands) are and being so limited on space, anything an individual or a company can do to reduce what we put in our landfills is very helpful.” Hawaii Home Infusion decided to make the commitment to scan as many documents as they could. “We have one person who scans full time,” says Todd. The result has been beneficial not only to the environment, but “documents and files are so much easier to handle now. Anyone who needs to, can see the patient's information right on the screen.” Like many states, Hawaii has its own recycling laws. For instance, no cardboard is allowed in the landfills – all the empty boxes used for supplies must be recycled. Hawaii Home Infusion Associates manages approximately 1200 patients with offices on Kauai, Oahu and Guam. “We like to say we’re a little company with 25 employees worldwide,” says Todd. D.H.S. commends Chick Todd and Hawaii Home Infusion Associates for their dedication to our environment.

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Who works like this? Okay people, it is time to get organized! Wouldn’t you like a solution that would allow you to kick all of those filing cabinets to the curb? I bet you would! So here it is, the CPR+ Document Management System!!! Now is the time to go paperless and all will be “green” with envy.

Without the CPR+ DMS, how do you currently receive a fax? Do you walk over to the fax machine to find out if the incoming fax is yours, then make a copy of it, keep one at your desk, maybe file one into a filing cabinet that looks similar to the one above. While you are up getting the fax and making a copy, the copy machine jams, then you are paged for a phone call, put an order into the system, verify insurance, hang up the phone, realize you are thirsty, buy a soda from the vending machine, sit back down and say to yourself (45 minutes later), “Where’s my fax?” Now you get up again, go to the copy machine (where you realized you left your work), but it is gone - someone must have thrown it away because it sat there for too long. But that’s okay because you filed a copy in the patient’s file. Next, you walk to the filing cabinet to get the fax out of the patient’s file, but you can’t find it. In the background, Suzy says that she just sent the file to your office via UPS. Whoa! Maybe this is not your typical day and maybe it is a worst-case scenario, or maybe your day is even worse than this! Any way you look at it, a change needs to happen. CPR+ DMS is just the change you’ve been waiting for.

Here’s the "411" on DMS:

What is a Document Management System (DMS)? A DMS is a system that stores and keeps track of the following:

Electronic Documents- These are created from within or outside a software application.

Images of Paper Documents- These are scanned documents or documents received as an electronic image from a fax server.

The above definition explains exactly what the CPR+ Document Management System does for you. It enables your office to receive, view, and store faxes within CPR+ and to scan, view, and store any other document.

Below is an example of a fax that is ready to be stored or filed. With a couple of easy clicks, you can attach a fax to a patient’s record. CPR+ acts as your electronic filing cabinet that you can open with ease whenever you need to find a document. You can print it (if you absolutely have to) or attach it to an email as needed.

In addition to storing electronic documents, you can link them to your existing and future:

- Patients
- Physicians
- Payors
- Inventory items
- Employees
- And MORE!

With the CPR+ DMS, you’ll improve patient care, inter-office communication, save time, money, and don’t forget paper!

Imagine a time when you no longer have to stop and look for the paper “chart” to see the initial discharge orders, labs, or EOB. Basically, anything you’re now copying and filing in the paper chart can be easily linked to the patient’s record and retrieved with the click of your mouse! It’s easy, and it will have an immediate and powerful impact on your business and our planet.

Please contact me, Erika Seitz, at 866-277-4876 for our special offer: DMS for half-price through the end of May.

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