JonokeMed™ makes it possible for you to run a truly paperless office, but paper is not going away any time soon. The fact remains that business today is largely done on paper, right alongside the technology designed to reduce (if not replace) it.

Store and read documents –
without the document

JonokeMed™'s commitment to the paperless office even accommodates this, by way of document imaging courtesy a scanner. Your JonokeMed™ solution can include an Image Server, which serves as a repository for the digital image files of scanned documents. Each file is connected to the associated patient record, as well as to a staff and/or doctor JonokeMed™ user who is to review the document.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Some paperless systems hope to rely on OCR for electronic document storage. JonokeMed™ avoids this approach due to the notorious inaccuracy of OCR software. Particularly in the case of health care-related documents, accuracy is quintessential.

The concept of OCR has to do with attempting to recreate a document in electronic text format, rather than as an electronic image file. When in text format, the file(s) necessary to recreate the document typically take up less disk space. However, this method will often dispel with the layout of the page, will seldom recognize handwriting, and always requires meticulous review by the user for letters or words which the software is uncertain about.

The following scan of a printed document was put through an OCR to convert it to text:

The text file generated by the OCR software was as follows (errors in red):

On a computer screen, the standard resolution is 7Z dots per inch (dpi). That means that for every inch ho'izontally or vertically, the,e are 72 pixels on the screen. If you are looking at an image on the screen at 100% size, the pixels a'e shown l:l.lfyou we'e to zoom out to 50%, you would only be seeing half the pixels, since the only way the computer can show the image sma lie, is to exdude pixels. They still exist in the image file, but you just can't see them.

The accuracy of OCR simply is not high enough to be a viable option for electronic storage of medical information. Instead of the hassle and unreliability of OCR, JonokeMed™ stores a pristine digital image of each document from a scanner. You can even have an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) pass through a stack of documents, unattended.