Tag Archives: Clinical Documentation

Study: Combining Dictation and Natural Language Processing can aid Clinical Documentation Improvement

Physicians need to document information about patient health events, clinical status, and office visits in EHRs. Clinical data has to be captured accurately for quality reporting, claims reimbursement, public health information, and disease tracking. Medical transcription outsourcing plays an important … Continue reading

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Charting Intervention can improve Documentation of Geriatric Assessments during Patient “Hand-offs”

Geriatric patients usually have complex health needs and complex therapeutic regimens, requiring medical services and support from a wide variety of providers and caregivers. Transitional care includes a wide variety of services to support safe and timely geriatric patient transfer … Continue reading

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Clinical Documentation Support Reduces Urologists Difficulty in EHR Documentation

A recent report in Urology Times provides clear evidence of how urologists benefit from clinical documentation support. Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation is a burden for most physicians and many urologists are relying on scribes to help with the burden … Continue reading

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Efficient Clinical Documentation Solutions Needed to keep up with Progress in Neurology Research

With the rapid adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) in the U.S., medical transcription companies have become experts in providing physicians with EMR-integrated documentation, including customized solutions for specialties like neurology. Neurologists treat complex disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) … Continue reading

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Unique Challenges of Sports Medicine Specialists and How Medical Transcription Services Help

With a spate of serious injuries occurring just a few days after the start of the 2016 Olympic Games, sports medicine is in the news. Today, there is a lot at stake for professional athletes, their team, coaches and parents, … Continue reading

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Why Invest in Clinical Documentation Improvement?

Clinical documentation specialists evaluate patient records to determine if they are accurate and include all the important medical details, and provide feedback to physicians. Medical transcription companies play a key role in documenting physician dictation relating to all types of … Continue reading

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Better Clinical Documentation with Medical Transcription

Medical transcription is the process of converting the dictations of healthcare professionals into a suitably formatted text record. It plays an important role in the medical documentation industry. However, with the advent of EHR or electronic health records, healthcare providers … Continue reading

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Global Medical Transcription Market to Grow At CAGR of 6% during 2015-2019

Healthcare documentation has become more efficient with professional medical transcription, and the industry is growing. Research by TechNavio indicates that the global medical transcription market is set to grow at a CAGR of about 6% over the period 2015-2019. The … Continue reading

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Documenting Physician-Patient Encounters Vital to Diagnose and Treat Chronic Migraine

According to a new study presented at the 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society, migraines may be underreported and under-treated in teen athletes. In most cases studied, it is unclear whether there occurred an exacerbation of primary … Continue reading

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EHR Replacement Increases in 2015

According to the 2015 EHR Software BuyerView report by Software Advice, a company that researches and provides review on software applications, found that most buyers of EHRs are choosing to replace their existing system. In their six years of research … Continue reading

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