Electronic Medical Record Data Entry Options – A Comparison

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Electronic Medical Record Data Entry Options – A Comparison

While there are many options to populate electronic medical records, outsourcing medical transcription offers several unique advantages.

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In January 2015, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reported that about 8 in 10 or 83% of office-based physicians had adopted an electronic health records (EHRs). Medical transcription service companies provide efficient EHR/EMRintegrated documentation solutions from physician dictation. A reliable company can handle recordings made on devices such as digital recorder, telephone, or smartphone, or from conference call recordings.

Let’s take a look at the currently available EMR data entry options for physicians: 

Physician data entry: EMRs offer a point-and-click data entry solution for physicians.

However, studies show that as physicians are not data entry experts, they could take more than 4 minutes per patient to document a visit in the EMR template. This detracts from the quality of the encounter as the physician loses time that could be spent on the patient. Besides affecting physician productivity, it also increases the risk of errors in documentation.

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Speech recognition software: With speech recognition software such as Dragon Medical, physicians can dictate and document patient information. This provides results fast as Dragon can transcribe a voice dictation at speeds of 140 words per minute, though clarity is crucial. The software is available with a mobile recorder, which makes dictation possible at the point of care. However, the content generated would have to be edited. Many physicians rely on medical transcription services for proofreading

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Digital dictation with EMR interfacing: The physician dictates directly into a digital voice recorder. Clarity of speech will ensure a good recording. The dictation can be made from anywhere. The recorded files can then be transferred to a medical transcription company via FTP or other secure modes. Experienced medical transcriptionists can provide EMR-integrated reports that are up to 99% accurate from a good digital recording. In dictation with EMR interfacing, the transcribed data gets automatically populated into the EMR. The patient encounter is faithfully documented just as if it was done by the physician. All the content is tagged under different heads and can interface with any RIS, EMR or clinical warehouse.

Which option a physician’s practice chooses would depend on various factors such as the nature of the dictation, financial considerations, support staff availability, and so on.

However, it is quite obvious that outsourcing medical transcription to an experienced HIPAA-compliant service provider would offer many benefits over the other two options.

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Transcription with EMR interfacing streamlines practice workflow, improves clinician productivity, would meet Meaningful Use requirements and eliminate the need for investments in hardware and software.

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