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Medical Records Retrieval & Murphy's Law

The following is fiction, and in no way reflects on any insurance carrier real or imagined, although the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Murphy’s Law simply states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

Skipping A, Going to BC&D of Procurement

As the economy rides the rollercoaster on the morsels of hope and despair on hour by hour news releases, let’s look at vendor awareness of the procurement process. Procurement of what does not really matter, but knowledge and of the basic tenets does.

Outsourcing: When it’s Right and When it’s Not

Outsourcing of non-key operations and functions as a business strategy has long been a part of the way modern organizations do business. In simplest form outsourcing is the removal of non-core operations from in-house production or performance to external sources (Vendors). In some circumstances such removal may include people as well as technology and possibly machinery and equipment. Usually decisions to outsource are based on a desire to lower cost and enhance efficiency, with factors such as capital, availability of people, equipment and/or technology driving such decisions.

Medical Records Outsourcing-How to Choose Your Next Vendor

When was the last time you compared your current vendor with what is available in the market place? Technology updates at such a rapid pace, and change is so hard to do in a corporate structure, that to consider choosing the unknown over the comfortable is virtually unthinkable. I saw a sign posted in a hallway that said “Change: if that is the way we’ve always done it, then it is probably wrong.” The gathering of medical records has entered into the cyber age, and you need a vendor who can take you there.

Source Access Opens New Corporate Office

Waco, TX –Source Access, Inc. opened its new building, which houses operations and executive offices, in a prime location in Waco, Texas. The growing business offers information retrieval services to insurance companies nationwide. SAI is owned by Harold W. “Butch” Highfill CEO & President, Thomas L. “Tom” Corley CFO & EVP and Hobson A. “Hobby” Howell COO & EVP, all long time Waco residents.