A cool trick for getting someone a copy of an insurance card

Here's the scenario: you are tryingto book a patient for a procedure at a hospital or surgery center and they request a copy of the patient's insurance card. With a paper chart, you'd have to locate the chart, xerox a xerox of the original, and then fax the xerox of the xerox. Well, you can imagine that the card is basically worthless when it arrives at its destination.

Here's a better way. All you need is a business card scanner and associated software.

1. someone asks for the insurance card, ie hospital
2. pull up the card image in card scan
3. alt print screen to take a picture of the computer screen
4. open ms word blank document
5. paste
6. save as
7. efax
8. drink coffee

Total time: 2 minutes.