Community Health center, a new patient clinic in your town serving only underinsured and uninsured patients, has asked you to help its health information management department get started. calculate the number of new shelving units needed for a medical record filing system based on eight shelves per unit at 36 inches per shelf. The average record size equals 0.30 inches, and the center anticipates seeing 4,500 patients the first year.

Question

Community Health center, a new patient clinic in your town serving only underinsured and uninsured patients, has asked you to help its health information management department get started. calculate the number of new shelving units needed for a medical record filing system based on eight shelves per unit at 36 inches per shelf. The average record size equals 0.30 inches, and the center anticipates seeing 4,500 patients the first year.

Answer 1

Each unit holds 24 feet or 288 inches of shelving.

4,500 * 0.3 = 1,350 inches needed

1350 / 288 = 4.6875 = 5 units

Now -- why isn't a new health center starting totally digital? Why is it wasting time, space, and money on out-of-date paper records?

Is this why health care costs are so obscenely high?