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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Transciption Provider for Valley Preferred
R+B Sten-Tel has signed an agreement with Valley Preferred as the exclusive provider of transcription services in their Preferred Vendor program. “This is an exciting opportunity for us. Valley Preferred opens the door to an entire region. Our partnership says to Valley Preferred members that we’ve been vetted and they can trust us,” according to Peter Minio, Director of Business Development for R+B Sten-Tel.
They will work together by offering R+B Sten-Tel’s services to physician members within the Valley Preferred network. They now have a clear choice to consider with respect to outsourcing their clinical documentation needs. Medical Transcription is taking spoken words and transferring them into an electronic format. It is a proven platform to increase physician productivity and maintaining high quality.
Valley Preferred is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The Valley Preferred network includes more than 3700 DOCTORS and 18 HOSPITALS throughout 11 counties in Eastern Pennsylvania.
They will work together by offering R+B Sten-Tel’s services to physician members within the Valley Preferred network. They now have a clear choice to consider with respect to outsourcing their clinical documentation needs. Medical Transcription is taking spoken words and transferring them into an electronic format. It is a proven platform to increase physician productivity and maintaining high quality.
Valley Preferred is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The Valley Preferred network includes more than 3700 DOCTORS and 18 HOSPITALS throughout 11 counties in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Benefits of Outsourcing
Beyond cost savings, there are other benefits one can achieve by outsourcing certain functions of a practice such as transcription. Sue Kay of Efficiency in Practice wrote a great article highlighting 5 benefits of outsourcing beyond cost. It includes increased expertise, competitive advantage, management resources, management focus and reduction in risk.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Transcription in the EHR Age
Recently a colleague of mine forwarded me an article by Ken Congdon of Healthcare Technology Online, "Transcription in the EHR Age." He stresses the pitfalls practices experience while implementing an EHR primarily because of how drastically it changes a physician's behavior and recognizes challenges with respect to quality and data accuracy. Ken suggests that transcription in conjunction with the EHR can address many of the challenges associated with implementation. Using the technology transcription companies have available now, dictated information can be converted to text by a Medical Transcriptionist and inserted directly into an EMR. R+B Sten-Tel offeres such a solution today with EntriPoint. In other words, Medical Transcription can be a catalyst for EMR adoption.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Medical Transcription - The Future
As I meet with prospective clients I am coming across a question which is growing in it's frequency: "Isn't medical transcription going away?" Folks marketing voice recognition and EMR technology have done a good job professing that their solutions are the nail in the coffin for outsourced transcription services.
I tell my prospective clients that it depends on the practice and physicians. Voice Recognition technology has become a tool which helps improve productivity, but it doesn't replace human intelligence. There is still a certain percentage of each document which needs to be edited. A study by the AC Group finds that traditional EHR data-entry is 9 times longer than narrative dictation/transcription. Users come to a crossroad where they need to weigh the balance between the cost of transcription and the loss of productivity.
Even with EMR and Voice Recognition technology there is still a need for human intelligence. Specifically, a practice that needs to remain productive and not lose patient visits due to productivity shortfalls will continue with dictation/transcription. Furthermore, although in it's infancy, Discrete Reportable Transcription - DRT is the answer many are looking for by combining the efficiencies and quality gains of medical transcription with the value of discrete data.
I tell my prospective clients that it depends on the practice and physicians. Voice Recognition technology has become a tool which helps improve productivity, but it doesn't replace human intelligence. There is still a certain percentage of each document which needs to be edited. A study by the AC Group finds that traditional EHR data-entry is 9 times longer than narrative dictation/transcription. Users come to a crossroad where they need to weigh the balance between the cost of transcription and the loss of productivity.
Even with EMR and Voice Recognition technology there is still a need for human intelligence. Specifically, a practice that needs to remain productive and not lose patient visits due to productivity shortfalls will continue with dictation/transcription. Furthermore, although in it's infancy, Discrete Reportable Transcription - DRT is the answer many are looking for by combining the efficiencies and quality gains of medical transcription with the value of discrete data.
Monday, September 21, 2009
EMRs Cutting Doctor-Patient Time
A recent article in American Medical News "Don't let EMRs cut into your doctor-patient time" describes a situation where the interaction between a physician and his patient is diminished and less intimate because he was stuck behind a computer screen trying to document the encounter.
That's what DRT - Discrete Reportable Transcription is all about. Why force a doctor to type his or her own note or search for the right diagnosis on a computer screen. Physicians should be focused on their patients, not their keyboards. DRT allows physicians to dictate their patient visits, leaving more time to improve their patient's health. The transcribed information is delivered directly into the system as discrete data.
That's what DRT - Discrete Reportable Transcription is all about. Why force a doctor to type his or her own note or search for the right diagnosis on a computer screen. Physicians should be focused on their patients, not their keyboards. DRT allows physicians to dictate their patient visits, leaving more time to improve their patient's health. The transcribed information is delivered directly into the system as discrete data.
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Value of Discrete Data
With Discrete Reportable Transcription (DRT) a dictated note can be inserted into a patient's medical record within a practice wide EMR. The difference between DRT and a standard import feature many EMR provders offer is that a DRT solution inserts discrete data. With the data being discrete, even a dictated and transcribed portion of a patient encounter allows for the same benefits one would receive through other means of documenting such an encounter within the EMR itself. Therefore, it allows for searching or reporting on data within an EMR which has been dictated. For example, discrete data makes it easy if a Practice Manager wants to find out how many patients have a history of smoking or an Orthopaedic practice needs to find out who has been referred to a certain Physical Therapist. DRT isn't just transcription, because the data provided becomes much more valuable than words. Make sure your EMR is DRT enabled.
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