Why Interface Transcription with Your Electronic Record?
EMR sales companies claim to help you eliminate the cost of patient documentation by requiring physicians to abandon dictation and use templates to record patient encounters. But do they?
Studies show that it takes a physician an average of 4.5 minutes per patient to document a visit using templates in an EHR system. By contrast, dictation takes only 1.5 minutes per patient. That’s a difference of three minutes per patient! If a physician sees an average of 20 patients each day, that translates to 60 minutes a day. The result? Doctors will either see fewer patients or work longer hours. Transcription costs may be lower, but so is productivity, resulting in thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Consider that physicians and their medical assistants are more expensive than transcriptionists. In addition, doesn’t high quality patient care mean physicians who focus on their patients instead of their computer screen?