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Artificial Intelligence•6 min•Trufe Insights•Apr 8, 2026
Document Intelligence — How Hospitals Are Eliminating 80% of Manual Data Entry
Industry Analysis (Case-Study-Flavored) perspective for Healthcare with implementation guidance and internal references.
The Hidden Cost of Paper in Healthcare
- Patient intake forms, lab reports, insurance claims, discharge summaries
- FTEs burned on data entry that could be redeployed to patient care
What Document Intelligence Actually Is
- OCR (optical character recognition) — the baseline
- NLP extraction — understanding context, not just characters
- Classification — routing documents to the right workflow
- Validation — cross-checking extracted data against EHR records
Architecture of a Healthcare IDP Pipeline
- Intake → OCR → NLP extraction → Validation → EHR integration → Exception queue
Results from the Field
- Processing time: hours → minutes
- Accuracy: 94% manual → 99.2% automated
- FTEs redeployed: 6+ per hospital network
Privacy Considerations
Closing CTA:
→ Link to: /solutions/intelligent-automation/rpa/intelligent-automation/
→ Link to: /industries/healthcare-life-sciences/
- PHI handling: HIPAA + DPDPA controls on the processing pipeline
- Data minimization: extract only what's needed, redact the rest
Internal References
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