Every year, our IPA gives bonuses based upon how well we have our pts. meeting their metrics. Being able to search across all charts would be incredibly valuable and make the process so much easier...
Outside labs need to be searchable so that I can generate a report, for instance, of all results of a certain test (not for MY benefit, mind you - for the PQRS we have to do). So these I would have faxed to the MFS, get converted to OCR, and then routed via Updox to the respective chart.
If you want to be able to generate reports. You'd be better off using Tracked Data Fields in AC. E.g. recording HbA1c level. You could filter for all people above 6.5%. That's something that requires a database. Some users just use Excel/Access to do this, but why not just AC if you can.
But if you're just trying to find a word or something across a large number of PDFs, a search will do it. OCR is really meant to be used inside the document though. I doubt search HbA1c would return anything useful.
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