At Providence Hospital, a 349-bed facility in Mobile, Alabama, the Access PFS suite delivers forms and workflow automation efficiency in multiple departments. PFS enables Providence to easily design customized forms in-house, and distribute them directly to the point-of-need for printing, faxing, e-mailing and archiving. As forms information is managed electronically, users have immediate access to current data. A benefit/cost analysis determined that the Access solution delivers $124,300 annual cost savings by eliminating the waste and delays associated with manual forms processing.

Areas using Access solutions: Hospital-wide

Integration: Siemens EDM/HIM, Siemens Invision HIS, document management system

Access products deployed: Patient Flow System, e-Forms Repository, Image Portal

• Manually managing forms incurs high storage and supply costs
• Patients may have to fill out registration forms more than once
• When the HIS is down, forms data is inaccessible
• Tedious forms preparation tasks limit productivity

• Electronic forms management delivers $124,300 annual cost savings
• Fast, one-time check-in improves patient satisfaction
• Access solution offers uninterrupted access to patient data
• Auto-population of forms data boosts productivity