New archiving software saves office space for doctors’ co-operatives
Southampton-based data-entry specialist Kendata
Peripherals has introduced a new modular archiving software
package that eliminates the need for doctors’ co-operatives
to store thousands of paper-based records.
Doctors co-operatives can typically generate 70,000 call-out
sheets per year, all of which have to be kept safely in case
they need to be referred to at a later date.
The new DCAM
(Doctors’ Co-operatives Archiving Module) software not only
provides a simple and cost-effective means of filing and searching
the call-out sheets, but also frees up valuable office storage
space.
Based on the company’s commercial Information
Archive Server product, DCAM
retains the existing storage and retrieval modules and offers
specially developed input screens to suit the needs of doctors’
co-operatives. The result is an intuitive archiving system providing
features normally only found on significantly higher priced
products.
As batches of call-out sheets are scanned, the DCAM
indexer automatically allocates a reference number to each image
and stores it with the time and date of scanning. This simplifies
retrieval and allows for later audit, ensuring that the highest
integrity is maintained.
Standard browser based retrieval reduces installation time
and keeps training to a minimum, with documents being easily
viewable on PCs, Macs and other platforms.
The DCAM
software can also manage jukeboxes and will indicate when an
archive CD needs to be written. Using its built-in writing-software
and a CD writer, the system automatically creates two CDs one
master and one copy for storing off-site.
Modules for other healthcare applications are under development.
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