Medical Dictation Services
iMedat’s medical dictation services generate fast, accurate patient records no matter what recordkeeping system you use, from full EMRs to paper-based patient records and every hybrid model in between. Plus, our professional medical transcriptionists provide that all-important extra set of eyes to flag errors and inconsistencies.
iMedat’s Medical Dictation Services Beat Automated Systems Hands Down
Automation of some tasks can help save time and money, but certain tasks should still be completed by a live person. Medical transcription is one of them. Studies have shown time and again that the more medical professionals review data, the more errors are caught.
Further, automated dictation systems including voice recognition systems make way too many mistakes. This leads to:
- Poor-quality patient records
- Potentially dangerous errors in medication names, medical terms, and other technical wording
- More time on the backend finding and correcting these errors
- Another set of eyes on the data to flag inconsistencies
- An average drop in the level of patient care you can provide
iMedat’s medical dictation services solves all these problems. Our trained, professional medical transcriptionists meet the industry-standard 99% accuracy rate – much higher than voice recognition software. Plus, clinicians receive all the same time-savings so that they can focus on their patients, not their laptop.
How iMedat’s Documentation Services Work
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It’s fast and easy!
Upload Your Audio
We Accept All Major File Types
Download Your Transcription
Usually within 24 Hours
Why Medical Dictation Services?
The promise of electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) to make recordkeeping faster and easier has not lived up to the hype. Sure, they are great at making patient records more portable and accessible for authorized care providers, but many health care professionals find entering that data in the first place to be difficult, time-consuming, and stressful. EMRs have turned high-paid clinicians into high-paid clerical workers, and it’s not helping anyone – least of all patients.
Asking clinicians to update patient records and document patient encounters as they’re happening is an inefficient system:
- It takes the attention off the patient and puts it onto the EMR
- Often, data is entered incorrectly (a common example: structured vs. unstructured data), which adds more work to office staff including health information managers
- Clinicians spend a lot of extra time managing patient records – one study found that the average physician spends 43% of the patient encounter actively updating the EMR
- Clinicians report higher levels of burnout and lower job satisfaction
The result: clinicians either spend more time after hours updating patient records or see fewer patients during office hours because they’re bogged down in clerical work. This is not efficient from any standpoint. Clinicians get burned out, office staff spend more time auditing and correcting records, and patients feel ignored. From a financial perspective, billables can go down if clinicians see fewer patients.
Clerical support including medical dictation is designed to support physicians and clinicians to reduce their stress and workload so they can focus on what they’re trained to do: care for patients. For many clinicians, dictation is the fastest, easiest, most efficient way to document patient encounters. Medical transcriptionist can update patient records faster, better, and more inexpensively. Providing this kind of support seems like an obvious solution to ensure clinical documentation improvements (CDI) and ultimately increase billables.
iMedat’s medical dictation services provide a level of clerical support that does help everyone from physicians and clinicians to health information managers (HIMs), practice managers, and patients.
How Medical Dictation Services Work
Doctors, nurse practitioners, therapists, and other health care providers can simply dictate their notes, either during or after the patient encounter. Then, they and/or office staff simply upload the audio files to iMedat’s secure servers. The completed transcription comes back within 24 hours, ready to populate EMRs or include with paper-based records. (iMedat can also accommodate hybrid models – contact us to find out how.)
The system is fast, easy, and does not interrupt clinician workflows. Physicians and clinicians have more face time with patients and less screen time with their devices for better patient care.
Contact iMedat or Schedule an EMR Integration Consultation
Contact iMedat to find out how our medical dictation services can help your clinicians save time, reduce stress, improve patient care, and increase billables for every clinician. You can also schedule a consultation so we can explain how it will work with your systems.