Speech recognition software (like Dragon Medical) extends the value and improves the return on your EMR investment.
While less than 20% of all physicians are using EMR's today, adoption is accelerating. By 2014, all physicians are expected to be using EMR's to document care. Despite this aggressive mandate, physicians continue to resist adopting EMR's because they slow physicians down, and prevent them from documenting care in their own words.Speech recognition software solves this challenge. Healthcare organizations using this technology will discover that they can provide more efficient, profitable, and effective care. Clinicians will dictate patient records faster, more accurately than ever, and even better, clinicians will be freed up to spend more time with patients, increasing both patient and clinician satisfaction. You do, however, need to make sure that your speech recognition software program supports HIPAA patient information confidentiality requirements.
Using speech recognition software, practice economics can become substantially improved. Patient notes dictated are more complete. Detailed physician decision-making supports higher levels of reimbursement than simple notes created by “point and click” EMR templates. Denial rates are reduced as coding is improved. Transcription is eliminated.
Finally, practice volume is increased, as physicians can see more patients. Best of all, clinicians can get home on time for dinner, with paperwork completed before they leave the office.
Contact us for a discussion of HOW Dragon Medical Software can help your practice realize all of these benefits, and more. Dragon Medical’s return on investment is substantial – eliminating transcription, accelerating EMR adoption, increasing reimbursement, and lowering denials.
