ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) or Economic Stimulus bill was introduced in February 2009, aimed at spurring economic growth across multiple industries through Government spending. Out of this $ 19 billion was aimed at the healthcare Industry by way of incentives for meaningful adoption and implementation of EHR (Electronic Health Record) also known as EMR (Electronic Medical Record).
What is EMR/EHR?
Given below are the definitions of EMR and EHR
EMR: Is the electronic record of health related information on an individual that is created, gathered, managed and consulted by licensed clinicians and staff from a single organization involved in the individual’s health and care.
EHR: is the aggregate electronic health related information on an individual that is created and gathered cumulatively across more than one health care organization and is managed and consulted by licensed clinicians and staff involved in the individual’s health and care
Implementation of EMR/EHR has several benefits apart from that of the financial stimulus offered. These benefits include customizable templates according to doctor requirements, consistent & accurate data, easy retrieval and data input by pointing and clicking.
Having said that one needs to look at the down side of Direct Data Entry by doctors into the EMR/EHR system:
- Lack the convenience of free form of dictation that allowed the doctors flexibility of time while allowing them to avail the benefits of comprehensively capturing data.
- More time spent on data entry rather than on patient care that could lead to loss of productivity of doctors causing them to treat lesser number of patients.
- Lack of eye contact while entering data with patients could lead to dilution of the “Bedside Manner” which forms an integral part of the personal care that patients expect.
- Only tech-savvy doctors can adapt to this method.
- Patient information would be in identical formats without the inclusion of personalized data that is an important part of healthcare.
- Affect the bottom line of the healthcare facility in a negative way due to loss of productivity.
Having seen the benefits and the downside of EMR/EHR adoption one can see that the adoption of EMR/EHR through direct data entry by doctors can have a learning curve and lead to a loss of productivity. This may seriously hinder the transition and delay the adoption process. To solve this one needs to look at the possibility of adopting EMR/EHR while still retaining the traditional medical transcription method for creating records.
This could help overcome issues like loss of productivity leading to erosion of bottom line, personal care for patients etc. One needs to look for a medical transcription service provider that has the capabilities to import patient information to the EMR system while at the same time able to maintain accuracy, turnaround time and offer reasonable rates.
TransDyne has a smart delivery system, which has features like User defined folder paths to enable easy imports to EMR systems. The Smart Delivery system is the suggested mode of document delivery where pre-defined file saving would help import documents to EMR systems.
Not only that TransDyne offers quality medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert medical transcriptionists with a very quick turnaround time executed through secure HIPAA and HITECH compliant channels, with very high levels of accuracy and all this with technology that is advanced but easy to use!
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