COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Cut total medical records management costs by up to 30 percent

Iron Mountain’s Comprehensive Health Information Management (CHM) program is a fully outsourced, centralized, active medical records management solution. The program is designed to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and enable healthcare organizations to transition cost-effectively to the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Implementing a customized CHM program can help customers cut total medical records management costs by up to 30 percent.

Enhanced access and cost savings by integrating active and inactive records

CHM employs a holistic approach to health records management that enables hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities to combine active and inactive records into a single outsourced system. The service includes a preliminary consulting engagement conducted by a team of Iron Mountain medical records management experts, which provides a complete end-to-end evaluation of your healthcare information management practices.

The consulting engagement provides:

• A survey of existing medical record facilities and file rooms
• A gap analysis of current file room procedures versus best practices
• Financial analyses of long-term space demands and staffing requirements
• Potential cost reductions and efficiency gains through consolidation
• A roadmap of long-term strategies for managing the transition to the EHR while ensuring regulatory compliance

Based on this assessment, Iron Mountain will then design a customized, fully outsourced, active medical records operations and management program that:

• Delivers measurable cost savings with little or no capital investment
• Frees up valuable hospital space that can be used for revenue generation
• Streamlines file room management and allows you to reduce staff expenses
• Provides better access to patient information, ultimately improving patient care
• Helps you fund and prepare for the transition to the EHR