Franklin Medical Center, Winnsboro, LA

At Franklin Medical Center, the task of complying with the record keeping portion of HIPAA is notable for how easy it was to accomplish.

"We added Audit Trail to our Laserfiche system," reports the hospital's plant operations manager, Dwaine Boothe. "We'd planned to add this module to ensure HIPAA compliance when we chose Laserfiche.

"We bought it in as soon as our repository of scanned medical records was large enough to start sharing files with other departments and medical professionals. With Audit Trail in place, we are confident that our records will be in compliance with HIPAA moving forward."

At this point, Franklin Medical Center has scanned more than 250,000 pages of medical records into the Laserfiche repository, including all active files going back a year. Emergency room doctors now have the ability to refer to Laserfiche to review the medical records of incoming patients.

Boothe expects the hospital to soon have all its archives in Laserfiche as part of an intensive scanning program put together by his assistant, Judy Ogden. That program will enable them to remove the five portable storage buildings that currently house paper records and that were their chief reason for turning to Laserfiche in the first place.