Document Workflow Suite
Summary
We have been responsible for development work on a large industrial scale document workflow suite. This product is a complete mature and well-established system for document management market, which has been deployed and is being used by multiple offices in health care and other industries. It had been created as a pure UNIX AIX system and grew over time to a mixed AIX/Windows solution.
Customer
Founded in 1989, Dakota Imaging, Inc. is a leading provider of turnkey systems and outsourcing for automated data capture, transaction processing, document imaging and document management. Our ready-to-use solutions are employed in mission critical, high-volume transaction processing applications by the healthcare insurance, fulfillment and government markets. Dakota Imaging has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the software industry.
In 2005 Dakota Imaging became a part of Emdeon Business Services. This company provides revenue cycle management and clinical communication solutions that enable payers, providers and patients to improve healthcare business processes. We offer a full suite of products and services to automate key business functions for healthcare payers, providers, and vendors.
System Overview
The suite lets customers turn paper to digital data, and allows document intensive businesses to capture information quickly and efficiently while controlling costs. It is a total document imaging solution that provides scanning, image enhancement, automated forms recognition, automated and intelligent indexing, warehousing, search and retrieval. All of these components are comprised together, in one system. The system is a forms processing/data entry imaging application that is fully compatible with all popular off-the-shelf hardware and software. It can be customized to work with your data in your environment.
Product Features
- Scanning of all forms, claims and attachments (such as HCFA-1500, UB-82/92, Ambulance, Encounters, Dental claims, Enrollment, Orders, Tax Returns, Invoices, etc.)
- OCR/ICR based automatic indexing
- OCR/ICR based automatic data entry of claim/form data
- Integrated manual data entry from image
- Industry specific expert system based data validation and automatic decision rules
- Output "clean data" in ASCII, NSF, XML, EMC, custom, and EDI formats
- Integrated optical storage, image archival management and search; retrieval of forms/claims images from any PC on the network or over the Internet
- Robust data warehousing
- Remote OCR reject-repair, data entry from image and claim/order pre-adjudication using built-in secure telecommuting software
Document Storage and Management
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A complete modular client-server or Web based turnkey imaging system built-in
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Interface with different types of off-the shelf scanners and optical/tape jukeboxes
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Production strength SQL database, RAID and optical jukebox management of documents
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Automatic & Manual Indexing using data from OCR and keying processes
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Each form and associated attachments can be automatically indexed with multiple keys as it is input into the system
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Database indexing for associated "external user" information
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Priority querying
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Queries are assigned priorities based on requester's needs ("hot" requests first)
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Built-in extensive queuing and caching system
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Routine requests queued and processed periodically by platter
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OCR/ICR Automated Data Capture |
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Sorting
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Multi-page Forms
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Transform Advantages
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Image Processing
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OCR, ICR, Bar Codes & OMR Mark Sense
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Edit and Verification
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QA
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Fast, color coded data support
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Form Design
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Design Studio lets you easily create forms without extensive training or customization.
Tools and Technologies
Platforms: AIX, Linux, MS Windows
Application Servers: Jakarta Tomcat, ColdFusion Application Serer
Database: Sybase Enterprise Server, Sybase Adaptive Server
Languages: C++, Java, Perl CFML, XML
Technologies: RUP / UML
Effort: over 300 man-months
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