The Insurance Card Scanner – a Must for the Nursing Home Office

Nursing home business offices are often times quite busy. 

 With the daily intake of new residents, the discharge of others, the constant billing and checking of insurance coverage status, it’s hard to stay on top of things with the mounds and mounds of paperwork.  One device that can really make a difference in a busy nursing home office is the insurance card scanner.  Here’s why.

The insurance card scanner scans and reads insurance cards and then uploads the data into digital form onto the application of your choice (i.e. medical form, database, simple PDF file, etc.).  It achieves this digital wonder by utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which reads non-digitalized data and converts it into digital form, all within a matter of seconds.  For example, if you wanted to upload the data to your system’s medical form, you would simple need to scan the card and automatically (with the bundled software) the correct data would be inputted into the appropriate fields.  That means the social security number would be exported into the social security field, the insurance coverage into the insurance coverage field and so on.  In other words, office staff would no longer need to write or type the information onto the form, which would save hours of time for more important endeavors.  

The scanner can also scan and read images, so that you can even upload the card’s complete image onto your hard drive.  In other words, you have a permanent imprint of the insurance card in your records.  No longer do you have to worry about copies of insurance cards fading over time.  That’s a real plus when an emergency occurs and the ambulance driver needs a legible copy of the insurance card.  All you would need to do is print out a copy of the card from your computer.  

If you’re concerned about the insurance scanner taking up precious room in an already crowded office, don’t worry.  The insurance card scanner’s small, ergonomic footprint can easily be placed besides a desktop or laptop computer.   And since it doesn’t require its own power source, it can be used in just about any spot in the nursing home office.