Medical Transcription for Physicians and Clinicians

Reduce physician and clinician stress, improve job satisfaction, increase billings, AND provide a higher standard of patient care with iMedat’s documentation services. iMedat provides medical transcription for physicians and clinicians, giving them the clerical support they need so they can focus on what they do best: care for patients. Our professional transcriptionists and virtual scribes can streamline recordkeeping to free up physicians’ and clinicians’ valuable time.

iMedat’s medical transcription services help a range of specialists and clinicians including:

• Allergists
• Cardiologists
• Gynecologists
• Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Obstetricians
• Occupational Therapists
• Oncologists
• Ophthalmologists
• Orthopedic Surgeons
• Otorhinolaryngologists
• Physical Therapists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologist
• Pediatricians
• Respiratory Therapists
• Urologists
• Vascular Surgerons

“Did Anyone Ask Physicians and Clinicians What They Need?”

Physicians and clinicians were never meant to be data processors. However, that’s been the ugly downside of transitioning to electronic medical records (EMRs). EMR software vendors sold their “solutions” on the promise of reducing the need for transcriptionists. Sure, physicians and clinicians could update their own patient records. But nobody asked, should they?

• Should clinicians be expected to become efficient data processors?
• Should a high-paid specialist be left on his or her own to click boxes and hunt and peck notes?
• Should primary care providers spend more time staring at their computer screens than making eye contact with patients?
• Should therapists and other hands-on health professionals be constantly moving back and forth between their patients and their tablets or laptops?

Of course, the answer is no. Physicians and clinicians should spend their time caring for patients, not updating records – especially when iMedat can provide medical transcription for physicians faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively.

The Results of the EMR Experiment Came Back Negative…

We’ve seen the results of this EMR experiment. Since the move to electronic systems, health care professionals spend more hours updating their own patient records. (There are many studies on this that are easy to Google. Here’s one study that found first-year residents – presumably the most tech-savvy among us – spent about 43% of their time interacting with electronic health records.) Forcing health care providers to update their own records leads to:

• Increased physician and clinician burnout
• Reduced time with patients
• Perhaps fewer patients seen per day (leading to fewer billable hours)
• Incorrect tagging leading to mistakes in patient records due to physicians and clinicians not being trained in data processing
• Added stress on practice managers, HIMs, and office staff to audit and correct patient records
• Overall reduced office efficiency, billings, and patient care

Clerical support has always been a cost-effective method of allowing physicians and clinicians more time with their patients.

EMRs Are Like Medications: They Need to Be Used Correctly

Few argue about the advantages of EMRs. Almost across the board, everyone agrees that EMRs improve patient care. However, like every useful medication out there, this is only true if used correctly. Asking physicians and clinicians to update their own EMRs without assistance is not the correct use. Providing that all-important element – clerical support – vastly improves the efficiency of EMRs for all stakeholders from clinicians to office staff to patients.

Some care providers are more comfortable with technology than others. That’s natural. And that’s the advantage of iMedat’s documentation and medical transcription services for physicians. Our system can be customized right down to the clinician level. That means we are available to help those care providers only in areas where they need it. If you want to check boxes but dictate SOAP notes, our transcriptionists will provide fast, accurate transcripts that are correctly tagged. If you want to dictate referral letters but take care of the rest of their EMRs, we can do that too. Our system allows all physicians and clinicians to take care of documenting the portions of the patient encounter they are comfortable with while we take care of the rest.

Contact iMedat For Medical Transcription for Physicians and Clinicians

iMedat can help you use your EMR more efficiently by providing medical transcription for physicians and clinicians, giving you the support you need. Contact iMedat for more information about how we can tailor our medical transcription and documentation services to your office, clinic, or health network department.