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Microstat is the preferred supplier in Healthcare

Friday, December 4th, 2009

We are proud to be able to announce that we now have 36 private medical practices using our document scanning services.  It is now 5 years since we scanned our first set of medical notes for a Private Practice in Harley street, and since then we have scanned around 2 million documents and some 250,000 individual medical files. It is our ability to integrate with the various different private practice management software, along with our strict quality control that has seen Microstat recommended time and again throughout the medical world.

We are able to provide a total solution from collection of the notes, right through to the hands on process of uploading and seamlessly integrating the files of the practice into their computer system – this means a practice has the contents of their filing cabinets always at their finger tips within their PC. We even add Full Text Search, ( also known as OCR )so a Doctor or member of the admin team can look up a precise drug name or medical condition across their entire patient database, and get an instant list of which patients have been prescribed that drug or suffer from that condition. This has been hailed as a trtemendous asset by all those practices that have selected this aspect of our document scanning service. All of the work is carried out by our experienced team of scanning professionals based in our Birmingham scanning bureau. Our Midlands location allows us to offer a nationwide document collection service.

If you would like your practice to benefit from our document management services, contact us, and we will visit you and scan a sample of your files free of charge. This visit will also allows us to assess the practice management software that you use and explain how our scanned images will be retrieved if you use our document scanning service.

1911 Census goes Digital!

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

You may have heard in the news that the 1911 census for England has been made publicly available on-line for the first time this week. Demand to access this resource is expected to be so high that the Government warned of possible website crashes at the same time as they announced its existence!

It has been made possible by a huge scanning programme carried out by the government of the original hand written records which provides a fascinating snap shot of how 38 million people lived 98 years ago. Football fans will be fascinated ( or not ) to know that David Beckhams great, great grandfather John Beckham was a rag and bone man in London! Well perhaps information on your own family ancestors will seem interesting to you!

Here at Microstat we have been scanning records of a genealogical nature for years, and often suggest to clients that once the records are digitised, that we apply OCR ( Optical Character Recognition ) software over the images in order to allow Full Text Search. Obviously the search advantages that this brings is not restricted purely to digitised Ancestry records, but ANY information that needs searching. For example, searching for ” John Beckham” would bring up all pages containing that phrase, across a repository even of millions of pages!

At Microstat, we have scanned either the documents from an organisation, or digitised their microfilm or microfiche records, and then applied the OCR software, allowing them virtually instant access to any word or phrase. If you would like to see how we can help you, we will scan a section of your records, free of charge.

Contact us at enquiry@microstat.co.uk or call 0121 486 2020 and speak to Tim Myatt or Steve Cave about our service