Tag Archives: Electronic Health Record

Use of Electronic Health Records by Nurse Practitioners – Problems and Solutions

Electronic health records (EHRs) have become ubiquitous part of the health care system. Medical transcription companies provide EHR-integrated documentation solutions to help clinicians manage heavy patient loads with extensive data entry and reporting requirements. A recent study published in the … Continue reading

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New Google Glass based Assistant Enhances Physician-Patient Bond

Physicians make use of medical transcription services as well as medical scribes to accurately document patients’ medical records. These strategies have evolved with the adoption of EHRs, and both medical transcriptionists and scribes provide effective EHR-integrated documentation solutions… Continue reading → Continue reading

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Sharing Notes with Patients – What Physicians Need to Know

Even with the advent of the electronic health record (EHR), many physicians rely on medical transcription service companies to maintain accurate and timely health care data. Recent studies have reported that patient access to physician notes is gaining impetus. Note … Continue reading

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Maximizing the Potential of the Electronic Health Record

The electronic health record (EHR) is designed to allow physicians to provide higher-quality, customized, cost-effective care to patients. Medical transcription service companies help providers manage their data entry tasks, allowing them to efficiently document narrative entries. But are physicians maximizing … Continue reading

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Document Sharing and Face-to-Face Communication between Inpatient and Outpatient Physicians boosts Care

Many hospitalists and primary care physicians rely on medical transcription outsourcing to meet their documentation needs. The primary goal of patient care documentation is to communicate vital information about the patient to all the healthcare providers involved in caring for … Continue reading

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Outpatient Orthopedic Services Gaining Popularity

With the aging of the baby boomer generation, the field of orthopedics has grown significantly over the past few years. Faced with an increase in patients, rising costs, and changing industry rules, more and more orthopedic practices rely on outsourcing … Continue reading

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Mobile Clinical Documentation to Be at the Core of the U.S. Healthcare Industry

Mobile clinical documentation is predicted to be at the center of the healthcare industry and this leads one to think about the relevance of medical transcription and the role of medical transcription services in that not-so-distant future. While the dictation-transcription … Continue reading

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Positive Global PACS and RIS Market Outlook augurs well for Medical Transcription Services

According to a recent Transparency Market Research report, the global PACS and RIS market is expected to grow at a rate of 7.0% during the period 2016-2024. The report says that the value of the picture archiving and communication system … Continue reading

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Report: Geriatric Emergency Rooms Improve Care for Seniors

According to official statistics, more than 20% of US residents are expected to be 65 years or older by 2030, which is a 102% increase from the year 2000. Along with the growth in the number of elderly, the incidence … Continue reading

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Study: Physicians Make More Errors with EHR than with Paper Records

In healthcare, the importance of good records hardly needs to be stressed. By documenting treatment, progress and outcomes accurately, patient records make effective health care possible and also help physicians justify services provided. The standard documentation process involves the physicians … Continue reading

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