One of the major benefits of the implementation was that the hospital saved heavily on costs. “For investing in any document management system, a minimum investment of Rs 3 crore is required,
” he says. Mehrotra spent only Rs 6 lakh on the new system and it has already saved the hospital Rs 25 lakh on physical storage cost annually.
Due to the success of the project, Artemis' finance and HR departments also expressed interest in digitizing their respective records. According to Mehrotra, the finance guidelines allow the hospital's financial department to retain records up to 10 years, but it wants to initiate the digitization process -- imitating the success of Mehrotra’s initiative which was deployed in a span of just four months.