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US 2008/0164305 A1Published application
Information transfer system, method, and apparatus
OwnerKares Kettering Ballinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a data transfer system and method in which paper-based forms sum up patient encounter information using a combination of machine readable barcodes and OMR bubbles to transfer patient encounter information from paper forms into electronic medical billing information systems.
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A method of data interchange, the method comprising:
- creating an electronic document that encodes at least one human readable data element also a machine readable barcode, and at least one human readable data element in conjunction with a corresponding OMR bubble for manual encoding;
- printing the document;
- manually encoding with a marking instrument at least one OMR bubble;
- scanning the completed paper form to create an image;
- decoding the image to extract barcoded and OMR bubble encoded data:
- outputting at least one XML filed that contains the data captured from the image;
- producing a human readable file for a quality control check;
- transmitting the data to another computer system.
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