East Kent chooses Kofax information-capture system for pathology

East Kent Pathology Network (EKPN) is to install a new information capture system from Kofax, as part of a five-year contract that will benefit EKPN subsidiaries including the East Kent Hospital NHS Trust, Medway NHS Trust, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

The system, which includes Kofax’s INDICIUS and Ascent Capture, will enable EKPN to manage incoming pathology specimen request forms more efficiently, regardless of type and format. EKPN will, for example, benefit from Kofax’s automatic document separation technology, which eliminates the need to insert separator sheets and can help to substantially reduce costs related to printing separator sheets, such as paper, ink and toner. A suite of customisable software modules that automates the classification, sorting and separation of paper and electronic documents, INDICIUS can also greatly reduce the cost of human errors associated with manual document separation, as it can automatically extract the handwritten and printed information from the patient request form to a high degree of accuracy. Ascent Capture, meanwhile, automates information capture from scanned paper or imported electronic documents.

“Our number one goal is to improve the quality of service for our patients and we believe this new solution will help us to achieve this goal by streamlining requests through our pathology environment”, said Dai Davies, Pathology Manager at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust. “We have already seen tremendous benefits from our electronic document management system and see extreme value in the addition of document classification, separation and extraction capabilities to further automate our business processes.”

Kofax is a division of information capture software firm DICOM Group plc and is based in California.

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