Physicians and hospitals are concerned by the loss of physician efficiency due
to the increased demand on the physician's time to self-enter data into the
EMR/EHR (Electronic Medical/Health Record). This loss of physician efficiency
is resulting in higher patient-care costs, due to the physician's inability to
see as many patients per day as they saw when they previously dictated their
notes. For decades, the traditional record-keeping model has been: the physician dictates his or her notes, with the MT (Medical Transcriptionist) turning the physician's words into documents. The well known efficiency of dictating allows physicians to speak their notes 3 or more times faster than self-keyboarding. So where the average physician used to spend 5 minutes per patient dictating their notes, they find they're now spending 15 or more minutes per patient entering data into the EMR/EHR.
The problem with EMR/EHR implementation is that it is being used in place of (instead of alongside) the traditional dictation/transcription process. The resulting loss of physician efficiency becomes evident to the hospital's administrators, who begin to look for ways to solve this troublesome and costly problem.
The solution to the problem of EMR/EHR induced physician inefficiency is by using dictation products like the DigiTel Call-In Dictation System alongside the EMR/EHR. By doing so, the physician regains the efficiency of dictating their notes; the MT performs the EMR/EHR data entry quickly and inexpensively; and the hospital attains productive use of the EMR/EHR without sacrificing physician efficiency. To implement this solution, the small adjustment to the traditional dictation/transcription model is: the MT now enters the physician's dictated data into the EMR/EHR instead of into a word processor.
DigiTel Call-in System is HIPPA Compliant
