Since health cards can be used for patient identification,
admissions, insurance verification, payment settlement and marketing - all
while reducing administrative costs and improving the quality of service -
they will clearly play an important role in health care reform tomorrow.
Proven HCS Health Card technology makes
it all possible today.
An HCS Patient Card Systemtm
allows for the storage of vital patient information and for the electronic
access to a health care provider's data base using plastic cards.
Here's how: when patients arrive at your facility to register
with their Health Cards, their cards are read by a HCS Health Card
terminal. Electronically a medical record number, name or other data
stored on the card directly accesses the correct patient record in your
database. Valuable time is saved and duplicate medical record number
problems are reduced. Information from the database, the card, or both, is
displayed on your ADT screens. The admissions interviewer can then proceed
efficiently through data verification and updating. At the end of the
process both the database and the card are updated simultaneously.
In addition, your admissions department is spared the stress of dealing
with frustrated patients. Morale is improved. And productivity increases.
From a patient's perspective, your organization will be perceived as
one that anticipates the needs of its patients and is committed to serving
them in the most pleasant, respectful manner possible.
Only an HCS
Patient Card Systemtm
offers such a wide range of options that includes the capability to update
patient information on the card when necessary, as well as providing
connectivity between your patients and various information systems at
different location within your provider network. Always consistent and
accurate, this patient information can then be more efficiently processed
by your business office since the possibility of it being dated,
duplicated or misidentified has been eliminated.
Cost justifiable in terms of overall increased efficiencies in your
admission and business offices; image justifiable in terms of the high
degree of market presence your provider network will have as
HCS Health Cards are carried around in the
purses and wallets of people in your service areas; an
HCS Patient Card Systemtm
gives your organization the strategic competitive advantage it needs today
and positions it for participation in the health care information highway
of tomorrow.
