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Forward Advantage announced the latest release of RapidFiler 2.0 and includes additional features to improve provider and charting efficiencies, saving time and giving providers quicker access to the documents they need to care for their patients.

Orders were not reliably received by the hospital, and staff had no easy way to manage, search or file them into the MEDITECH Echart. After performing a market evaluation, Goshen selected Forward Advantage’s RapidFiler™ to streamline the filing of inbound documents into MEDITECH’s Echart.

Forward Advantage developed RapidFiler™ to streamline the electronic filing of inbound documents to the MEDITECH Echart. RapidFiler™ is successfully used for many use cases, so we reached out to some of our top customers in various stages of implementation for feedback.

Many hospitals struggle with paper-based processes for inbound faxes, which require printing and scanning before manually associating with a patient’s chart. RapidFiler™ solves this challenge by allowing users to electronically process inbound documents before filing them into MEDITECH.

Filing inbound documents into the Echart is a challenge for many MEDITECH hospitals. Typical processes involve printing, scanning, and manipulating faxes before associating them with patient records. This wastes valuable time and resources, which was the case for Summit Pacific Medical Center after it migrated to MEDITECH 6.1. This critical access facility in Elma, Washington is primarily an outpatient center, and it had been using a third-party charting solution to handle th

New technology may have replaced faxing in some industries, but it is still highly prevalent in healthcare. In fact, Bloomberg Law recently reported that at least 70% of healthcare providers still exchange medical information using a fax machine. Why is this? Faxing is familiar, efficient, and generally affordable. In many cases, it’s the only report delivery solution available to healthcare organizations and practices without resources for more sophisticated interoperability