A suburban Philadelphia company that manages data and documents for hospitals and healthcare systems now has the capacity to convert more records into an electronic format.
Alpha Systems, which is based in Huntingdon Valley, uploads patient charts and other documents to hospitals' electronic document management systems so hospitals and health care systems can access them in a digital form and employees can access information more quickly.
Alpha Systems has more than 200 customers and scans more than 1 million medical records a day. And this winter it started using a newly expanded data center that increased its capacity from 250 terabytes to 700 terabytes — nearly 2.5 times the capacity of the Library of Congress' entire Web archive. That figure also means Alpha Systems has doubled its capacity to assemble and prepare hospitals' charts in electronic form.
“It's very rewarding to work for a company who is able to invest in the latest technologies when many businesses are facing challenges,” says Cyndi Rauch, the company's sales and marketing manager.
Rauch says increasing the efficiency of document handling will become more important for hospitals as new federal regulations for medical coding go into effect in October 2013. These regulations will increase the quantity of numbers nearly fivefold. And the more slowly medical documents are processed, the more slowly hospitals are paid. That means anything simplifying the process will be a major help.
Source: Cyndi Rauch, Alpha Systems
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen