Q: How can FormFast help my facility move toward the Electronic Medical Record?

A: FormFast or similar software products do two great things for seekers of the EMR: cut your printing budget in half while preparing all forms to be scanned into an optical imaging system.


Q: What must I do to prepare forms for scanning?

A: To scan forms to the EMR, they must be indexed by Patient Medical Record No, Account No and Transaction Type (or form number). They must be black ink on white paper with clear margins, no shading and with bar codes so that they can be automatically indexed when they are scanned.
In other words, your future needs are nothing like your current forms and forms ID process.


Q: How does FormFast software eliminate preprinted forms and help make my staff more efficient as we move to EMR?

A: The FormFast solution is to print all forms on demand on laser printers with patient imprint data and bar codes printed on the original document. This eliminates the preprinted forms, imprinters, plastic cards, labels, embossers and a lot of work for nursing to identify forms with cards or labels.


Q: Why haven’t I heard more about this ID process as transition to EMR?

A: It's an overhaul of all the forms and it can take time and money which will slow down your process. Who wants to know that? Yet it is a significant barrier which has kept hundreds of hospitals from success in optical imaging. Instead they have scanned images you can't read, manually indexed, with significant errors and a large back room staff...and low satisfaction from users.


Q: What’s the one thing I should take away about SmartLaunch to EMR?

A: FormFast.com has highly efficient people and software to reduce the cost and frustration of this process...and most of the printing budget. We have done it for 560 hospitals and we can do it for you.