There are many unique requirements for printing technology within healthcare. Pharmacy, admissions, nursing, and many other departments have specific requirements and workflow challenges that are not being fully met by current print technologies. Often, limitations of installed applications and/or print vendors’ technology have resulted in the increase of manual processes. Print environments are often unmanaged; this causes device proliferation and high ownership costs for maintenance, supplies, and equipment replacement.

Many healthcare providers – with the proper print management solutions – have experienced significant cost reductions. These cost reductions have created the capital needed for deployment of newer print technologies that specifically address the needs of various departments within the care organization. Initiatives such as positive patient ID, barcode medication administration, and insurance fraud reduction highlight the need for solutions that go beyond just the simple output of documents.

Analysis. Placement. Maintenance.

Our HealthDynamix specialists work to identify a healthcare provider’s opportunity for improvement in these specific areas, while also performing comprehensive printing analysis for consolidation, device placement improvement, and functionality. We can also help you to understand if you are receiving the maximum benefits of any current managed print or copier contracts. HealthDynamix is both a reseller and authorized warranty service provider of all major print manufacturers. This ensures that we have both the capability and the processes to help you improve your print environment management. Let our print solution specialists provide you with examples of how we have helped similar organizations.

Help desks often categorize printers in the top five categories for support incidents. Many organizations struggle to understand the annual costs of equipment, labor, and support of the print environment. Various independent research firms confirm that 30-40% cost reductions are possible with the proper managed print services and technology solutions.

How much capital does your organization have locked-up in supplies that are simply sitting in closets, and employees' work locations? When should you replace equipment verses repairing it?  How often do outages in the print environment affect productivity? Questions such as these highlight the need for effective, managed print services. Our HealthDynamix specialists can provide a comprehensive print assessment analysis to highlight areas requiring progressive improvement within your IT organization, or areas that can be outsourced to our print services group.

Often, print costs are high due to numerous seldom-utilized devices that may not be properly equipped to perform the needed functions for that designated workgroup. By placing the proper devices within your environment, driving utilization, efficiently managing supplies, and providing proactive maintenance, the costs and reliability of the print environment will improve.

Critical Requirements, 24/7

In many areas of the hospital, such as pharmacy printing workgroups, high volume, critical output devices are necessary. In addition to standard managed print services, the HealthDynamix team offers rapid replace and exchange programs for these critical areas. These programs ensure that unforeseen downtime will have a minimal impact on your business units.

Our HealthDynamix professionals are ready to review sample print assessments and maintenance programs with you. These will improve your print environment and help your organization realize the positive impact managed print services can have.

Many initiatives have been introduced within healthcare to improve patient safety, reduce errors, improve efficiency, and address fraud. The proper print solutions can enhance your organization’s ability to support these initiatives and improve ease-of-use for healthcare workers.

Pharmacy

Pharmacies represent one of the most dynamic departments within a healthcare organization. Variations in drug container packaging, bar-coding symbologies, and safety requirements create the need for adaptable solutions. Safety initiatives, such as “tallman” lettering for similarly named drugs, can help reduce errors by providing easier visual identification and better medication labeling. Tallman lettering, or the addition of 1D and 2D barcodes, may require organizations to upgrade (or contract) resources to accommodate applications changes. Our HealthDynamix team offers solutions that place label formatting in the hands of the pharmacy – regardless of the medical application or selected printer vendor.

Nursing

Recent studies have shown that nursing staffs struggle with numerous inefficiencies and workflow problems that limit the amount of time spent on patent care. Improving first scan barcode labeling accuracy, the process for down-time reports and forms, and the ability to quickly produce additional patient barcode labeling can greatly improve efficiency. HealthDynamix professionals can help your organization address such issues with cost-effective solutions that don’t require expensive upgrades to your medical applications. For example, first scan accuracy can be greatly improved by utilizing multiple 2D barcodes surrounding the entire patient wrist band. We can help you add such features quickly with new print technology that provides control beyond what you may be utilizing today.

How do you provide your medication administration report to your nursing staff during system outages? Often, nurses are required to revert to an inefficient and complicated process in such situations. What if this data were available from any multi-function printer – without the need for a PC? This is one of many examples where HealthDynamix specialists can work with your organization to help improve the efficiency of operations – without costly upgrades.

Fraud and Secure Access

As healthcare costs have risen, so have fraud concerns. Many hospitals are faced with increasing insurance fraud rates, accelerating the need create positive identification processes for those receiving care. Many admissions staff members are utilizing stopgap systems to capture patient photographs for those not able to present photo ID along with insurance credentials at the time of care. What if you could easily capture patients’ photos and create a inexpensive barcoded ID with relevant patient data – an ID that could be used for future patient visits?

Many hospitals are securing facilities to prevent free-roaming public access in order to improve physical security and reduce drug and medical equipment theft. This creates a need for inexpensive visitor identification and access control. What if these options could be provided in a disposable, easy-to-produce, and cost-effective identification label?

Our HealthDynamix team can work with your organization to provide these print and/or biometric solutions that will reduce fraud and provide a strong return on your investment.