CGI-Datacap Solutions Help Hospitals Increase Efficiency, Cuts Costs, And Improve Care

Labor-intensive, error-prone manual paper handling is becoming increasingly burdensome for hospitals. Healthcare decision-makers face growing pressure to reduce costs; improve productivity and efficiency; speed and expand access to information; and deliver first-rate care, which requires correct, up-to-date records.

Yet a dearth of cost-effective software to automate document digitization, plus a reluctance to invest in such technology has hindered industry adoption of much-needed solutions – until recently.

"Hospital decision-makers are starting to come out of their shells and show true interest in automating data scanning and indexing," says John George, director of the Healthcare Solutions Group of CGI, a leading provider of information technology and business process services.

A top supplier of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions to healthcare organizations, CGI counts among its customers more than 35 healthcare systems and 200 hospitals in the United States and Canada.

A sign of the change: the rising popularity of CGI's Sovera solutions for healthcare, with which it partners with Datacap, the leading provider of flexible data capture and forms processing software solutions. Joint efforts focus on medical records and vendor invoices.