With an eye toward streamlining security and compliance procedures
in a post-9/11 world, Panasonic released the KV-S1025 Color Duplex (CD) Workgroup Scanner.
The CD Workgroup Scanner includes Panasonic’s
unique “double-exposure” technology, which can automatically scan and combine
the content of both sides of an ID card or document into a single electronic
image.
A single-pass color or grayscale option speeds scanning by
automatically removing up to three colors or color range from a document
during scanning.
Panasonic says the CD Workgroup Scanner, with a list price of $1,049, and a non-duplex model (the KV-S1020C at $949), are designed for front office, decentralized scanning environments such as those in health care, pharmacy, transportation, insurance and financial services.
“Such applications require that data be captured at its point of entry from
a wide variety of media, such as hard ID cards, and traditional paper media, such as NCR forms, onion-skin paper, plain paper and specialty long forms, such as EKG’s,” Gary Bailer, PDDC product manager for scanners at Panasonic, said
in a statement.
Post-9/11 compliance regulations such as the Patriot Act, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley
their procedures, operations and customer interactions.
In the case of health care, a patient is typically required to provide a
variety of ID cards and paper documents.
These may include a driver’s license, a primary insurance card, a secondary insurance card, a patient information form, a HIPAA release form, a consent for treatment form or an authorization for release of medical information form.
The new Panasonic scanners have an edge over traditional scanners that can’t
handle the multiple shapes, thickness and size of the various IDs and
documents.
“The workgroup segment of the scanner industry, units in the $500 to $2,000
price range, are becoming the most competitive and fastest-growing segment
of the market,” Jon Franke, a consultant with InfoTrends, told
internetnews.com.
“In my opinion, the health care industry is ripe for a product like this,” he said. “Look at the typical check-in area or nurse station where patients must fill out multiple forms and present multiple IDs.
“With this product’s ability to scan cards and paper, the user can conceivably just throw all a patient’s documents on the scanner, have it automatically detect them and launch the scan application on the station’s computer, and go from there.”
The duplex KV-S1025C offers single-pass color, grayscale and binary duplex-scanning rates of up to 52 images per minute, while the non-duplex KV-S1020C offers single-sided scanning at up to 26ppm.
