Free Medical Film Digitization Service Cuts Costs from Healthcare Facility Budgets

An on-site scanning service provides an earth-friendly, cost-effective archiving system for a cash-strapped medical industry.

With hospitals continually looking for new ways to slash costs while keeping customers satisfied, anything that can achieve this--especially for free--is helpful. Moreover, when that product or service is good for the environment, and that is precisely why more and more healthcare facilities are utilizing Bayland Digital, Inc. (Houston, TX, USA), a free medical scanning service that converts film X-rays into digital format and then recycles the old X-rays.

“Without a doubt, this is a win-win for all involved,” said Rudy Nematzadeh, Bayland Digital’s founder. “Patients are pleased because they can instantly receive high-quality, digital images of their older X-rays, and health care professionals can provide these digital scans while simultaneously cutting traditional archive-associated costs. As if that’s not enough, our no-cost service is earth-friendly. When X-rays are left to decompose in landfills, they are actually quite toxic, and so we’re trying to prevent that from happening through our complimentary recycling efforts.”

Bayland Digital specializes in scanning film such as X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans, ultrasounds, magnetic resonance Imaging (MRIs), mammograms. Once scanned, the images are loaded into a fully searchable Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format, which works with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Bayland Digital, which can complete the entire conversion process onsite at no charge to the client, will then recycle the original films.

A HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)-compliant company, Bayland Digital adheres to HIPPA’s stringent privacy policies and ensures an error-free, secure transfer process. Bayland Digital also has a thorough regimen for verifying digitized X-rays--each patient’s name and/or identification number is validated three separate times. Only then are scanned digital files safely stored either on the client’s server or on a complimentary server provided by Bayland Digital.

“Everything we’re doing is part of an effort to support the conversion from analog to digital while reducing needless expenditures for our clients, their patients and everyone else who is affected by the physical, logistical, administrative, HR [human resources], and financial deadweight associated with outdated or traditional archiving,” stated Ash Attar, Bayland Digital’s cofounder. “Our solution eliminates the need for film storage, retrieval service fees, per-scan costs and so much more. With hospitals and other medical organizations struggling to trim fat from their budgets, this free film scanning process is a financial no-brainer for all.”

Bayland Digital, Inc. offers free medical film digitizing services. Founded by a team of information technology (IT) professionals, entrepreneurs, and medical equipment experts, Bayland Digital’s operates cutting-edge digital scanning equipment that is capable of digitizing and then recycling up to one million medical film sheets a month and on site, providing as fast, secure, and accurate final product.

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