Document Management and Imaging for Cerner
The OpenText solution for Cerner® enables clinicians to view unstructured data from within the Cerner electronic medical record (from the Episodes and Physician InBox screens, for example). Access to documents is completely transparent to the Cerner user. Leveraging our tight integration to Cerner, OpenText provides sub-second display of clinical documents at the point of care with no additional physician or nurse training.
Commonly, OpenText migrates legacy documents (those already scanned or otherwise captured) from existing storage into our repository while new documents are captured directly. Links to these documents are automatically inserted into the appropriate Cerner Episode and Order. Document types supported include:
- Scanned patient records, typically from the existing paper patient record
- Faced clinical documents such as physician referrals and results
- Electronic documents such as eMail, Microsoft Office documents, and PDF documents
- Clinical images such as those captured from digital cameras and similar clinical devices
- Radiology and cardiology DICOM imagery
Our document viewer, MRDisplay, enables Cerner users to view nearly any document type - without using the application that originally created the document; MRDisplay renders more than 250 of the most common Windows file types as well as healthcare unique images, such as those encapsulated by DICOM. This enables your physicians to review any document at the point of care while leveraging your existing Cerner infrastructure.
For paper scanning, OpenText provides several solutions, including:
- High volume, batch-oriented scanning with productivity enhancements such as multiple, on the fly bar code recognition – this solution is often used in centralized scanning environments such as is found in medical records
- Point of service scanning using ourCerner desktop scsanning application, MRCapture, typically used at patient registration
- Point of care capture which is often used by specialists, such as those in dermatology and plastic surgery
- Invoice processing with OCR and 3-way matching - note that we're testing a variation of this solution with one of our highest volume healthcare customers to capture and auto-index arbitrary medical records
Our Cerner customers enjoy:
- A single point of access to the complete patient record, namely the Cerner interface
- Reduced IT costs as centralization of unstructured content takes place
