subject: Ocumenting Physician Narrations Within An Emr Application, Now Offered By Medical Transcription Comp [print this page] New add-on services are being offered by medical transcription companies, which
include documenting physician narrations within an EMR application that is in
use by a healthcare facility. The transcription companies offer the service through
multimodal platforms, which include setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
with an existing Electronic Medical Record application in use by the healthcare
facility.
The technical team of the company in coordination with the IT staff of the clinic
enables the secure HIPAA compliant VPN connectivity, and using a secure
password the medical transcribers can login and document the physician narrations
read into the centralized voice recording system.
If the EMR application that is in use by a healthcare facility allows for Local Area
Network (LAN) connectivity, the transcription companies set it up in a similar
manner as the VPN. The EMR applications that are web-based, meaning a browser
based login are amongst the least complicated, in as so far as the technicalities are
concerned. The medical transcribers log into the EMR application website and
access the physician dictations to document them.
There are innumerous EMR applications available to healthcare facilities, some of
which are specialty specific, and consist of forms or templates that are relevant to
the practice. The transcription companies have trained medical transcribers that
are able to document the specialty reports using the forms or templates built within
these applications.
In most of the EMR applications the built-in voice recognition software has been a
big disappointment, because physicians do not want to loose their valuable time in
training the software to recognize their voice, even after the training process some
physicians have quality issues, such as misspells of medical terms and procedures,
in the automated reports.
Many healthcare facilities are in fact are keen to partner with medical transcription
companies that are able to provide the service through VPN, LAN or Web-Based
logins. The high costs of running an in-house transcription division is one of the
main reasons, healthcare facilities are looking at other alternatives. Each in-house
medical transcriber costs the healthcare facility $ 14 to $ 15 an hour, and added to
that are other overheads such as transcription hardware/software, and this cost the
clinics 35 to 38 for documenting a 65 character line.
The medical transcription companies on the other hand are able to provide the
service at just 8.5 to 9.5, so the difference in costs is one of the major reasons for
the facilities to look for viable alternatives, after all the health care reforms are all
