Electronic medical records can have a large impact on the major players. For those of you staying with paper medical record charts, Sahler offers a complete assortment of filing supplies and services at the best prices

Year labels or year bands mark the last contact or activity date. Makes purging old or inactive records easy and fast. You can order them on our year label page.

Don't see the style you use? All of these are also available. Contact us to place your order.

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All folders are manilla end tab style with metal fasteners.

Hacker proof files.

Patient's Medical records, legal matters, when kept in folders, cannot be invaded by computer hackers from the outside. No one, no matter how evilly clever, can use a computer to break into a physical file folder.

Computers are very fast. But the interface is only as fast as the user. Think about the steps required. Log in, select or type your user name then type your password. Enter the File name, or number.  Browse to the desired page to read or update: Progress notes, Blood pressure history, Medications? Vital stats? Age. Weight. A fastener equipped and color coded folder with subject index tab pages is  much faster.

But wait, there's more! Folders with hinged dividers called classification folders have built-in dividers with fasteners on each side. Because these folders are made with tough Tyvek hinges they lay flat when open. Another option is to add 'DuoTab' index dividers with printing and fasteners on both sides to basic fastener folders. Printing on the tab describes the contents on that side. They are made to order and work very well.

With either method, the folder will lie flat open to the right page. In each category of contents the newest page will be on top.

If you have read this far, you probably have a filing issue that can be helped with divided file folders. Manila folders start here. Heavy weight pressboard styles are here.

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We have press board folders with zero, one or three dividers at special prices. Click here to see. More folders without dividers are here.

Why do we care? Smead Manufacturing Company is our supplier of 100% acid free manila folders.

Even more important to the archivist and every one concerned with
preserving valuable documents are acid free folders treated with Anti Microbial Product Protection. This inorganic silver based treatment protects against mold and mildew
Letter and legal size folders are standard. As are both end and top tab styles.

Made to order treated index sheets and fastener file backs are available.  Call or drop us a note to talk about your concerns and get prices.

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Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records

When well designed and wisely used, computerized records have proved valuable in improving care. Doctors have more complete information in treating patients, reducing the chances of medical errors and unneeded tests. 

But the success stories to date have come mainly from large health care providers, like Kaiser Permanente, the Mayo Clinic and a handful of others. Most physicians are in small practices, lacking the financial and technical support the big groups provide for their doctors. So it is scarcely surprising that less than 30 percent of physicians nationwide now use digital records. . . .

. . . Without a brisk market in information exchange, the campaign to adopt electronic records cannot really pay off. And more is needed than data-sharing standards and privacy and security protections, Dr. Blumenthal says.

The incentives have to change as well. Two hospitals a few miles apart, he notes, do not now view themselves as allies, but as competitors. To a doctor or a hospital, a patient is, among other things, a financial asset — and holding a patient’s information is valuable.

Insurers, he suggests, will have to pay for providers to share data or penalize them if they don’t. “Information exchange has to be a business goal, rather than a competitive threat, for this to work,” he says.

While digital is the future of many records, 70% of doctors have not migrated from their existing paper records. The only resource you have that is more valuable than your records is your and your staff's time. Dividers, indexes and filebacks save time by creating as many separate filing surfaces in one folder as needed. You can then sort by category and keep individual items in order in each section.

• Optional electric gives the TekStak™ 2 outlets per tier, allowing for charging a laptop and other electronics, such as a cell phone, at the same time.
• Electric TekStaks™ can be stacked 5 or 10 units high while non-electric ones can be stacked 5 to 12 units high.
• Locking door keeps items secure. Key, hasp, or electronic lock options available.
• Ventilation pattern provides maximum air fow for cooling while still keeping even smaller items safely locked inside.
• Optional laminate top is available to create a convenient work surface.
• Optional drawer base for peripheral storage.
• Available in 19 standard colors to match any decor.

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By MILT FREUDENHEIM

Published: December 13, 2010

Important article about Electronic Medical Records concerns from the Ny Times.  Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system of electronic health records intended to improve the quality of care and reduce costs. But the conversion is still a slow work in progress. Only about one in four doctors, mostly in large group practices, is using the electronic record system. A vast majority of physicians in small offices, the doctors who serve most Americans, still track patients’ illnesses and other problems with pen and paper. Read the whole story.