LifeLine Health Network cut chart retrieval time 73% and saved $1.8M a year with a unified medical records platform
A 4-hospital network scattered records across paper, shared drives, and three legacy systems — every audit was a fire drill and every release-of-information request took days. A HIPAA-compliant document platform with e-signature and audit trails fixed it in 8 weeks.
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Where they started
LifeLine's 4 hospitals and 22 outpatient sites stored records across paper charts, three legacy EHR modules, and a network shared drive nobody trusted. Chart retrieval for a single patient averaged 3 days, release-of-information requests were backed up 6 weeks, and the compliance team spent 4 months a year preparing for audits. Paper and printing alone cost $1.9M a year, and consent forms went missing in 1 of every 7 admissions.
What we built
We deployed our Doc Vault platform with OCR-based ingestion that pulled records from all three legacy systems into one HIPAA-compliant library, e-signature workflows for consents and release-of-information, granular role-based access, and full audit trails on every view and edit. Retention policies now run automatically and audit packets generate in minutes.
Target outcomes
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Our last audit before this was four months of people sleeping at the office. The first audit after go-live, the packet generated in 20 minutes and we had zero findings. The paper savings alone paid for the platform.
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