Solutions to Speed TAT
While Providers continue to be resistant to changing their methods of documenting patient encounters, HIM Directors, like you, are saddled with answering the tough questions from the executive team. Security? Risk? Cost? Compliance?
Compliance is an area that should benefit from the electronic medical record; however, if providers are reluctant to document the encounters with the EMR template tools, new questions arise, like
- How do we improve the accuracy and efficiency of the providers documentation process AND ensure Compliance?
The challenges are straightforward:
- The telephone doesn’t integrate into the EMR
- The digital handheld is not a real-time dictation device
- Neither allow for the automatic passing of Patient Information and dictating demographics introduces room for error
So what are the options? For those in front of a PC, dictating directly into the PC is a great option. For those who are on the go, consider equipping them with a WiFi mobile dictation device.
A mobile device allows the provider to get a Patient List downloaded directly to their handheld, eliminating the need to dictate information like Medical Record #, Date of Birth as well as spelling the patient’s name. This improves reporting accuracy and speed turnaround in transcription by itself. In addition, the files are instantly (and securely) uploaded to BayScribe so the reporting process can begin… instead of waiting all day, or two, for the handheld to be sync’d at the PC.
There is a better way… BayScribe.
