Transcription Services and Clinical Documentation

For physicians and other clinicians, clinical documentation has always been part of your responsibilities. Recording patient encounters, writing referrals, and maintaining comprehensive and accurate records are vitally important to patient care. Dictation and transcription used to be the most popular method, but software companies sold clinics on to electronic medical record systems or EMRs claiming transcription was no longer necessary.

The fact is, recording patient data gets in the way of patient care. Those who moved to EMR systems found that the promise of making clinical documentation easier never quite panned out. In fact in many cases, clinicians reported they actually spent more time updating patient records – often at the expense of the patients themselves.

iMedat’s transcription services let you spend less time updating patient records and more time talking with patients, no matter what clinical documentation system you use. Learn more about iMedat’s:

• Medical Transcription Services
• Insurance Transcription Services
• Legal Transcription Services
• Medical and Clinical Documentation
• Virtual Medical Scribe Services

Transcription Services Your Way

For decades, the partners at iMedat have provided clinicians and medical practices with professional clinical documentation and transcription services. From paper-based to fully electronic systems and everything in between, iMedat’s trained medical transcriptionists save clinicians time and in turn help you boost billables.

We take care of your clerical work so you can take care of your patients.

iMedat customizes clinical documentation and transcription services:

• For EMR Systems
• For Paper-Based Systems
• For Hybrid Systems

Transcription Services for EMR Systems

Electronic medical records (EMRs), also known as electronic health records (EHRs), were meant to make things easier for clinicians and offer more options for patient documentation management. Unfortunately “more options” and “easier” do not always go hand in hand. Many clinicians and organizations found many issues implementing and using their new EMR systems.

Physicians and other clinicians for the most part find accessing patient data and transcribed reports relatively easy. However, entering patient data – especially during a patient visit – is a completely different story. Many clinicians find EMRs frustrating because they:

• Reduce clinicians to doing their own data entry – something for which traditionally they are not trained to do
• Reduce the one-on-one contact with patients, having a negative impact on the clinician AND the patient experience
• Increase workload for the clinician (which can lead to fewer patients and billings and/or increased hours for physicians)
• Increase stress levels for clinicians, patients, and often office staff and admin – not to mention contributes to clinician burnout
• Vex clinicians as they try to fit clinical workflow into given user interfaces and “meaningful use” requirements
• Underperform in many other ways (enter your own reasons here…) that disrupt workflow, finances, clinical satisfaction, and ultimately patient satisfaction

iMedat makes managing your EMR system easier. Our medical transcriptionists are trained to properly tag and manage clinical data in a way that makes sense for your practice as well as meet all meaningful use requirements. That means:

• Clinical data such as patient encounters and special notes are where they should be in the EMR software
• Less duplication of information
• Less reliance on template-based notes
• More face-to-face time with patients
• Better use of the clinician’s time
• An overall better experience for clinicians, staff, and especially patients

iMedat’s also offers related services including virtual medical scribing and editing notes to ensure patient records are up to date.

Transcription Services for Paper-Based Systems

Some practices are finding that for them, paper-based medical records are still the fastest and easiest way to maintain patient records. iMedat provides traditional transcription services to meet your needs, including:

• Phone dictation system
• Audio dictation in all file formats
• Return of completed transcription in all file formats
• Voice recognition transcriptions for editing
• Formatting completed documents including referral letters using your letterhead

Best of all, you get the same fast turnaround, accurate notes, and quality transcripts we’ve become known for over the years. We tailor our services to your workflows – even to the workflows of each individual physician on your staff.

Transcription Services for Hybrid Systems

Many clinicians and practices like combining the benefits of EMRs with the benefits of dictation and transcription they’re used to. iMedat can help here too. For example, clinicians may be comfortable entering checkbox data into EMRs, but prefer to dictate notes for more detailed narrative sections. There are actually many different ways that clinicians can approach patient record management.

iMedat has services for every system so that your clinicians can work exactly the way they want.

Our flexibility goes right down to the clinician level. So, when we say we can adapt to workflows, each clinician in a practice can have their own preferences. Some may prefer to do a lot of dictation and others not so much. We offer only the services you need so clinicians can get the help they need, when and where they need it.

Who We Help

• Health Information Managers (HIMs)
• Practice Managers
• Office Managers
• Physicians and Clinicians
• Lawyers and Law Offices
• Insurance Companies and Insurance Legal Teams

Transcription Services for Every Practice

Contact iMedat for a free initial consultation to find out how we can tailor services to meet the needs of your office, clinic, or institution. Our transcription company and service saves time for you, reduce clinician stress, and improve the patient experience.