Why Dictate Instead of or in Conjunction with Template Driven Electronic Record and/or Voice Recognition?
To insure physician productivity and accuracy of patient documentation.
Template Driven Patient Documentation Facts:
- Loss in physician productivity. It takes longer than dictating, resulting in less productivity.
- Patient documentation done via template driven information does not allow you to document the complexity and individualization of a patient’s case.
Voice Recognition Facts:
- Physicians dictate at normal to faster speeds when recording dictation. When using voice recognition, they must slow their speech considerably and annunciate clearly in order for the voice recognition to understand, resulting in loss in productivity for the physician.
- Editing voice recognition takes considerable time for the physician, again, resulting in loss of productivity.
- Physicians do not always go back and edit what the voice recognition puts in, resulting in inaccurate medical records and huge liability later.
Transcription Facts:
- Transcription is an art of listening to sometimes almost inaudible voice documentation. The physician dictates as fast as they like; in any dialect they choose, and our transcriptionists transcribe the information accurately.
- Our transcriptionists are trained professionals who pay close attention to the dictating clinician and catch discrepancies on the clinician’s part and bring it to their attention for clarification.
- With the clinician’s permission, we correct grammar as we transcribe.
The qualities that our medical transcriptionists possess and the productivity that a physician can maintain using our service is something that you cannot get from template driven patient notes or voice recognition.
Our web-based suite of software applications keeps doctors dictating while completely automating the entire dictation, transcription and documentation process and interfacing with any EMR system. Doesn’t high quality patient care mean physicians who focus on their patients instead of their computer screen?
- Populating your EMR with your recorded dictation as if you had populated it yourself through a template. This is done as part of our service at no extra cost to the client.
- Give physicians the opportunity to continue to record the complexity of their patient’s cases with the individualization that they do right now; something that you cannot do with a template on the computer.
- Our system allows you to 24/7/365 access to your patient’s records. If your EMR goes down, you have a backup of your dictation.