Feb. 9, 2011 (Business Wire) — Advocate Health Care in Oak Brook, Ill., has deployed Certify Data Systems, Inc.’s interoperability solution as the essential infrastructure for its enterprise health information exchange. Under its agreement with Advocate, Certify is offering its HealthDock™ interoperability product to Advocate’s 12 Chicago-area hospitals and affiliated physicians.
On Feb. 21, Certify will present an interactive discussion with John Norenberg, VP of Physician Services, Advocate Health Care, at the Peabody Orlando in Orlando, Fla. To register for this event or for other meetings with Norenberg and Certify executives, please visit http://www.certifydatasystems.com/norenberg/.
Advocate, the largest fully integrated not-for-profit healthcare system in Illinois, is nationally recognized both for its clinical quality and its progressive implementation of healthcare technology. Installed in physician offices across the country, Certify’s HealthDock™ appliance bridges the connectivity “last mile” in a manner that is uniquely easy to deploy, scale, manage and support, allowing hospitals to securely and seamlessly interface with their physicians’ electronic medical record (EMR) systems in real time. The Certify solution helps hospitals, health systems and eligible providers meet the “meaningful use” criteria issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, while improving delivery of patient care.
Installed in Advocate’s affiliated physician offices, the HealthDock™ enables the flow of critical clinical electronic data – such as lab results, pathology reports, radiology and transcription reports – between the physician practices and the Advocate hospitals even if they utilize different EMR systems. In the first six months, the HealthDock™ has been deployed in 29 of Advocate’s affiliated physician offices across 15 different EMRs.
“We chose Certify as our strategic partner because we believe their technology platform offers significant long-term advantages as we build our enterprise health information exchange,” said Norenberg. “Today, Certify is solving the very complicated problem of integrating disparate EMR systems and enabling the exchange of critical patient information among physicians at a transactional level so they can improve quality of care. Looking ahead, we see the Certify technology as a key component of our interoperability strategy and our efforts to build a true, patient-centric HIE that will enable us to reach out and connect with others, including the larger community, the government and other entities.”
“Advocate’s choice of the Certify technology is further affirmation of Certify’s ability to help healthcare organizations achieve full semantic interoperability,” said Marc Willard, Certify Data Systems’ Founder and CEO. “The Certify solution allows hospitals and health systems to deliver immediate value to their affiliated physicians by tackling the most difficult and time-consuming task of meaningful HIE from the outset. Successful HIE depends upon first connecting physicians electronically at the point of care. Making the investment now to provide ‘last-mile’ connectivity gives forward-thinking health systems like Advocate a competitive edge, especially as the number of physicians using EMRs will increase exponentially over the next several years.”
The Certify solution is easy to install and use and requires no additional software to be installed in Advocate’s affiliated physician offices. In its initial deployment at affiliated physician practices, the Certify solution significantly eliminated distribution of clinical data via paper, fax and Web portals, which required staff to manually scan or re-key this information into the EMRs. As a result, the Certify technology allowed the office to work within their current workflows while reducing labor costs, delays in interpretation and the potential for medical errors due to incorrect re-keying.
“The advantages we found with the Certify technology were that it was very easy to use and saved us a tremendous amount of time and effort,” said Arturo Chavarria, M.D., with PriCare Internal Medicine. “Having the patient data flow directly and instantly into our EMR – without our having to log in to a web portal to look for it or wait for it to appear via the fax machine – has made a significant difference in our ability to care for our patients. Not only are lab results and other reports available in a timely manner, the accuracy of the data has been improved since our staff no longer has to manually transcribe it into our EMR.”
About Certify Data Systems
Certify Data Systems, Inc. enables connectivity between hospitals and physicians in a manner that is uniquely easy to deploy, scale, manage and support. Certify employs sophisticated, proprietary technology that is fundamentally different from any other solution available today. Through the HealthDock™ appliance, Certify simplifies the time-consuming, resource-intensive and traditionally expensive process of interfacing with physician EMRs. Certify gives hospitals and health systems a new tool to seamlessly connect their physicians. The Certify solution delivers health information across the “last mile” of interoperability without changing the way hospitals or physicians work. Certify is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information please visit the Certify website at www.certifydatasystems.com.
HealthDock™ is a trademark of Certify Data Systems, Inc.
About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top 10 health systems, based on clinical performance, is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. Advocate operates more than 250 sites of care, including 10 acute care hospitals, two integrated children’s hospitals, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), two Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health care companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its three major teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $462 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland in 2009
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Many area health providers have already made the switch to electronic records
Health care is one of few industries in America that still relies on paper records. That's changing due in part to a requirement in the 2009 economic stimulus package and last year's health care reform law that will start penalizing practices that don't use electronic records.
Many local medical providers have already made the switch, and both Cape Girardeau hospitals are working on it.
The cost of converting ranges from around $10,000 for an individual physician to $12 million to $15 million for larger health systems, said Diane Smith, director of information systems at Saint Francis Medical Center.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates up to $27 billion will be spent over 10 years to adopt electronic medical records. Congress set aside $19 billion to assist medical providers with the conversion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Beginning last month, providers who have converted to electronic records could begin applying for federal funding assistance. According to the CDC, the first payments are expected in May.
The law also imposes penalties beginning in 2015 for providers that do not move to electronic records. The first regulations requiring electronic records take effect Oct. 1, 2012.
Both SoutheastHEALTH and Saint Francis Medical Center say converting operations of their size to electronic records is a challenge. Both hospitals are using them already to varying extents. Saint Francis already uses electronic records in its emergency department.
Southeast will be using solely electronic records in its physicians' offices and new Cancer Center by the end of this year, said Jay McGuire, information systems director at SoutheastHEALTH. The hospital will be 100 percent electronic by mid-2013, he said.
"We are already using electronic medical records for the vast majority of patients. Physician order entry and documentation are the last and most complex pieces of the EMR [emergency medical records] that we have yet to complete," McGuire said.
Smith did not provide a specific timeline for Saint Francis' implementation of electronic records but said staff started to convert paper documents into an image format last year.
AWL Family Health Care in Cape Girardeau has been using electronic records since 2008. Family nurse practitioners there say using them improves accuracy, safety and efficiency.
"We don't have to spend time locating a chart. You would not believe how much time that can take," nurse practitioner Dolores McDowell said. "Before, transcription would take one to three weeks before they were able to type it up; now we can look it up instantly."
Previous problems with reading a physician's handwriting are no longer a concern when using electronic records, and McDowell can send patients' prescriptions to pharmacies electronically.
"Now they can read my writing," McDowell said. "Historically, inability to read a doctor's handwriting has led to most drug errors." The electronic system also helps ensure accurate dosages and avoids drug interactions, she said.
AWL is also able to link its systems with that of other medical specialists, which makes referrals and accessing test results done at other facilities easier.
The electronic records system also makes it easier for AWL to track patient demographics and submit information it is required to turn in to receive government funding as a designated rural health clinic.
Dr. Robert George is still using paper records at his small office on Broadway in Cape Girardeau but said he was considering an electronic system before the new government requirements.
"I think it will be a good thing in the long run," he said. "I think it will be a lot more work than I am used to doing."
McDowell said she isn't a "computer person" but that she found the switch easy to make because the benefits outweighed the challenges of learning a new system.
"We try to strive to keep up with all of the latest recommendation and trends to provide optimal care for our patients," she said.
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Many local medical providers have already made the switch, and both Cape Girardeau hospitals are working on it.
The cost of converting ranges from around $10,000 for an individual physician to $12 million to $15 million for larger health systems, said Diane Smith, director of information systems at Saint Francis Medical Center.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates up to $27 billion will be spent over 10 years to adopt electronic medical records. Congress set aside $19 billion to assist medical providers with the conversion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Beginning last month, providers who have converted to electronic records could begin applying for federal funding assistance. According to the CDC, the first payments are expected in May.
The law also imposes penalties beginning in 2015 for providers that do not move to electronic records. The first regulations requiring electronic records take effect Oct. 1, 2012.
Both SoutheastHEALTH and Saint Francis Medical Center say converting operations of their size to electronic records is a challenge. Both hospitals are using them already to varying extents. Saint Francis already uses electronic records in its emergency department.
Southeast will be using solely electronic records in its physicians' offices and new Cancer Center by the end of this year, said Jay McGuire, information systems director at SoutheastHEALTH. The hospital will be 100 percent electronic by mid-2013, he said.
"We are already using electronic medical records for the vast majority of patients. Physician order entry and documentation are the last and most complex pieces of the EMR [emergency medical records] that we have yet to complete," McGuire said.
Smith did not provide a specific timeline for Saint Francis' implementation of electronic records but said staff started to convert paper documents into an image format last year.
AWL Family Health Care in Cape Girardeau has been using electronic records since 2008. Family nurse practitioners there say using them improves accuracy, safety and efficiency.
"We don't have to spend time locating a chart. You would not believe how much time that can take," nurse practitioner Dolores McDowell said. "Before, transcription would take one to three weeks before they were able to type it up; now we can look it up instantly."
Previous problems with reading a physician's handwriting are no longer a concern when using electronic records, and McDowell can send patients' prescriptions to pharmacies electronically.
"Now they can read my writing," McDowell said. "Historically, inability to read a doctor's handwriting has led to most drug errors." The electronic system also helps ensure accurate dosages and avoids drug interactions, she said.
AWL is also able to link its systems with that of other medical specialists, which makes referrals and accessing test results done at other facilities easier.
The electronic records system also makes it easier for AWL to track patient demographics and submit information it is required to turn in to receive government funding as a designated rural health clinic.
Dr. Robert George is still using paper records at his small office on Broadway in Cape Girardeau but said he was considering an electronic system before the new government requirements.
"I think it will be a good thing in the long run," he said. "I think it will be a lot more work than I am used to doing."
McDowell said she isn't a "computer person" but that she found the switch easy to make because the benefits outweighed the challenges of learning a new system.
"We try to strive to keep up with all of the latest recommendation and trends to provide optimal care for our patients," she said.
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Outsourcing documentation and billing services for lowering healthcare costs
Physicians are under greater stress today than they ever were before, as more and more patients are in need of quality healthcare, and in order to not only provide that at a lower cost, other issues such as regulatory rules related to documenting medical records or overseeing medical practice coding and billing tasks are taking away their precious time.
The physicians can easily outsource these additional tasks to service providers and concentrate only in providing better healthcare services to patients. The need is to delegate major tasks, such as document management and billing responsibilities to outside agencies. The healthcare facilities not only will have additional time available for the welfare of the patients, they also will have the benefit of saving huge costs.
Let us evaluate the costs for both, documenting patient's records as well as billing and coding processes. A healthcare facility pays approximately $14 to $15 an hour to a skilled medical transcriber in the United States, and added to that are other cost such as setting up computers and software for the in-house medical transcription and billing divisions.
The healthcare facilities incur a cost of 35¢ for documenting a line of 65 characters of a patient's medical record. The outsourced companies based in India or Philippines are able to document the same line cost for just 9¢ to 10¢, this is a huge cost difference that can save hospitals or clinics millions of dollars annually.
Likewise, each medical coder and biller cost the healthcare providers $35,000 to $45,000 annually, and in comparison the outsourced companies that provide billing and coding service charge as little as 2% of the total claim reimbursed by the insurance companies, surely this operation too if outsourced can save huge revenue.
The medical transcription services including Medical billing and coding, is provided through the internet, the outsourced companies that are based in remote locations setup a Virtual Private Network with an EMR application that is in use by the hospital or a clinic. The IT division enables a login access for the medical transcribers and billers/coders for documenting the narrations of the physicians, for the billing process the insurance claims are documented by the logged in billers of the remote location company.
The advantage that this arrangement offers to a healthcare facility is that patient's confidential healthcare records stay within the hospital or clinics EMR application, which is a mandatory HIPAA regulation. Another benefit that these companies offer is a quicker turn-around-time, which is just 12 hours for documenting physician narrations and about 48 hours for billing documents. The sooner healthcare facilities explore the feasibility of setting up this arrangement the better it shall be for providing patient care at lowered costs.
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The physicians can easily outsource these additional tasks to service providers and concentrate only in providing better healthcare services to patients. The need is to delegate major tasks, such as document management and billing responsibilities to outside agencies. The healthcare facilities not only will have additional time available for the welfare of the patients, they also will have the benefit of saving huge costs.
Let us evaluate the costs for both, documenting patient's records as well as billing and coding processes. A healthcare facility pays approximately $14 to $15 an hour to a skilled medical transcriber in the United States, and added to that are other cost such as setting up computers and software for the in-house medical transcription and billing divisions.
The healthcare facilities incur a cost of 35¢ for documenting a line of 65 characters of a patient's medical record. The outsourced companies based in India or Philippines are able to document the same line cost for just 9¢ to 10¢, this is a huge cost difference that can save hospitals or clinics millions of dollars annually.
Likewise, each medical coder and biller cost the healthcare providers $35,000 to $45,000 annually, and in comparison the outsourced companies that provide billing and coding service charge as little as 2% of the total claim reimbursed by the insurance companies, surely this operation too if outsourced can save huge revenue.
The medical transcription services including Medical billing and coding, is provided through the internet, the outsourced companies that are based in remote locations setup a Virtual Private Network with an EMR application that is in use by the hospital or a clinic. The IT division enables a login access for the medical transcribers and billers/coders for documenting the narrations of the physicians, for the billing process the insurance claims are documented by the logged in billers of the remote location company.
The advantage that this arrangement offers to a healthcare facility is that patient's confidential healthcare records stay within the hospital or clinics EMR application, which is a mandatory HIPAA regulation. Another benefit that these companies offer is a quicker turn-around-time, which is just 12 hours for documenting physician narrations and about 48 hours for billing documents. The sooner healthcare facilities explore the feasibility of setting up this arrangement the better it shall be for providing patient care at lowered costs.
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HealthSource Billing and Coding
Experience the GroupOne Difference!
The GroupOne Billing Center will help you take control of claims management processes and your entire practice workflow. Our billing and coding services eliminate unnecessary claim denials and delays through a complete integration of workflow, billing and reimbursement management. Along with a powerful electronic medical records package, this enables us to communicate effectively with your staff and third party payors. Clean claims and a practice-specific rules engine will dramatically increase your bottom line.
Overview of Billing & Coding Services
Superbill Redesign Fee Schedule Review
Coding & Abstracting Patient Registration
Insurance Verification Charge Entry
Electronic Claims Submission Payment Posting
Monthly Reporting/Financial Review Patient Statement Generation
Semi-annual E/M Chart Review Benchmarking
A/R “Clean-up” Program Spindown Projects
IT Conversion Projects Interim CBO Management/Staffing
GroupOne Billing Center – Key Features
We provide full workflow management, including online access to the provider’s office for patients, scheduling, document management, scanning, document routing, pharmacy callbacks, electronic fee tickets, electronic medical records, recall, etc.
The GroupOne Billing Center is staffed by professional coders to maintain the database and communicate with you regarding payor-specific, practice-specific and patient-specific information by CPT code. This produces extremely comprehensive, client-specific data that ensures clean claims and corporate compliance.
Our real-time rules engine updates CCI edits, bundling and LMRP updates, and searches for diagnosis compatibility.
Eligibility verification services are available, based on payor specific capabilities and access.
GroupOne Claims Management – How It Works
The GroupOne Billing Center creates the charge in the system after review and verification of the coded charges by Certified Professional Coders. The center submits insurance claims to the appropriate payors, generates periodic patient statements, and maintains data files. All claims are submitted electronically, except for those payors who do not accept electronic claim submissions or appealed claims that require additional documentation.
The GroupOne Billing Center allocates payments, denials and denial codes, and determines appeals in payment variance from negotiated contract to actual insurance payment.
Our team of reimbursement specialists follows every claim from submission to adjudication, ensuring proper handling of each submitted claim.
Claims status is tracked online and in real-time for continued reimbursement management. Claims submission dates, re-filing, as well as follow-up billing and collection notes are recorded and monitored by the billing staff, who are accountable for all activity in the system.
Reimbursement specialists promptly follow up on claims when payors fail to adjudicate within the specified time frame. At the same time, the center researches denied claims, re-files and updates the practice’s internal database to alert staff to changes in payor requirements.
The GroupOne Billing Center staff has online and immediate access to information requested by payors. This helps expedite claims adjudication with minimal interruption to the practice.
Powerful Tools and Reporting
Contract and fee schedule management tools provide a detailed picture of the accounts receivable for the practice, including the variance between scheduled and actual payments. These tools help the provider ensure that accurate and appropriate payments are received.
Tracking and management of denied claims helps uncover deficiencies in coding and billing practices. Denial management is used as a tool for the provider or office staff to address coding and billing errors and inconsistencies up-front, instead of correcting a denied claim. Clean claims translate to quicker, more complete payments and an improved bottom line.
The reporting package is developed and customized for each practice, based on the requirements and objectives of the physician(s) and administrative staff. Once in place, the system emails periodic reports to the appropriate recipients, including physicians, administrative staff and any outside parties such as the practice accountant.
The GroupOne Billing Center will help you take control of claims management processes and your entire practice workflow. Our billing and coding services eliminate unnecessary claim denials and delays through a complete integration of workflow, billing and reimbursement management. Along with a powerful electronic medical records package, this enables us to communicate effectively with your staff and third party payors. Clean claims and a practice-specific rules engine will dramatically increase your bottom line.
Overview of Billing & Coding Services
Superbill Redesign Fee Schedule Review
Coding & Abstracting Patient Registration
Insurance Verification Charge Entry
Electronic Claims Submission Payment Posting
Monthly Reporting/Financial Review Patient Statement Generation
Semi-annual E/M Chart Review Benchmarking
A/R “Clean-up” Program Spindown Projects
IT Conversion Projects Interim CBO Management/Staffing
GroupOne Billing Center – Key Features
We provide full workflow management, including online access to the provider’s office for patients, scheduling, document management, scanning, document routing, pharmacy callbacks, electronic fee tickets, electronic medical records, recall, etc.
The GroupOne Billing Center is staffed by professional coders to maintain the database and communicate with you regarding payor-specific, practice-specific and patient-specific information by CPT code. This produces extremely comprehensive, client-specific data that ensures clean claims and corporate compliance.
Our real-time rules engine updates CCI edits, bundling and LMRP updates, and searches for diagnosis compatibility.
Eligibility verification services are available, based on payor specific capabilities and access.
GroupOne Claims Management – How It Works
The GroupOne Billing Center creates the charge in the system after review and verification of the coded charges by Certified Professional Coders. The center submits insurance claims to the appropriate payors, generates periodic patient statements, and maintains data files. All claims are submitted electronically, except for those payors who do not accept electronic claim submissions or appealed claims that require additional documentation.
The GroupOne Billing Center allocates payments, denials and denial codes, and determines appeals in payment variance from negotiated contract to actual insurance payment.
Our team of reimbursement specialists follows every claim from submission to adjudication, ensuring proper handling of each submitted claim.
Claims status is tracked online and in real-time for continued reimbursement management. Claims submission dates, re-filing, as well as follow-up billing and collection notes are recorded and monitored by the billing staff, who are accountable for all activity in the system.
Reimbursement specialists promptly follow up on claims when payors fail to adjudicate within the specified time frame. At the same time, the center researches denied claims, re-files and updates the practice’s internal database to alert staff to changes in payor requirements.
The GroupOne Billing Center staff has online and immediate access to information requested by payors. This helps expedite claims adjudication with minimal interruption to the practice.
Powerful Tools and Reporting
Contract and fee schedule management tools provide a detailed picture of the accounts receivable for the practice, including the variance between scheduled and actual payments. These tools help the provider ensure that accurate and appropriate payments are received.
Tracking and management of denied claims helps uncover deficiencies in coding and billing practices. Denial management is used as a tool for the provider or office staff to address coding and billing errors and inconsistencies up-front, instead of correcting a denied claim. Clean claims translate to quicker, more complete payments and an improved bottom line.
The reporting package is developed and customized for each practice, based on the requirements and objectives of the physician(s) and administrative staff. Once in place, the system emails periodic reports to the appropriate recipients, including physicians, administrative staff and any outside parties such as the practice accountant.
Quality Medical Transcription for Medical Facilities
Medical Facilities Most medical facilitiesnow take advantage of thequality medical transcription services offered by professionaltranscription companies.These services efficientlyserve the medicaldocumentationrequirements of multi-specialty hospitals, long-termhealthcare centers, individual physicians, group practices,acute care clinics, nursing facilities and rehabilitation clinics.
Ensures Accuracy in Medical Reports
To ensure quality medical transcription services for medical facilities, the transcription companies maintain apanel of experts including transcription specialists, editors,quality controllers and proofreaders who are familiar withmedical terminology and jargon. With the help of the latestequipment, software technologies and procedures, theseprofessionals transcribe medical reports including patienthistories, clinic notes, diagnostic reports, consultation notes, laboratory reports, scan reports, procedure notes, operativenotes, ER notes, follow-up notes, physical examinationreports and more with outstanding accuracy.
Minimizes Workload of Healthcare Specialists
By utilizing well–organized medical transcription service
,healthcare professionals can save their time and effortneeded for preparing different medical reports. This helpsthem to focus on the treatment activities for their patients.Moreover, these services help medical facilities to reducethe investment needed for performing medical transcriptiont asks inside the practice. Quality medical transcriptionservices also offers benefits such as:
• Digital dictation machines and toll free number dictation facility
• Quality assurance at three levels
• Reduce paperwork in your practice
• Higher security and confidentiality for all data
• HIPAA compliance
• File transferring: secured FTP and browser based 256 bit AESencryption protocol
• Swift turnaround time
• Round-the-clock technical assistance
Depend on a Right Service Provider
If you are planning to outsource the medical transcription jobs of your medical facility, make sure to locate the right service provider. An established provider can offer quality services at competitive rates to meet your specific requirements.
Ensures Accuracy in Medical Reports
To ensure quality medical transcription services for medical facilities, the transcription companies maintain apanel of experts including transcription specialists, editors,quality controllers and proofreaders who are familiar withmedical terminology and jargon. With the help of the latestequipment, software technologies and procedures, theseprofessionals transcribe medical reports including patienthistories, clinic notes, diagnostic reports, consultation notes, laboratory reports, scan reports, procedure notes, operativenotes, ER notes, follow-up notes, physical examinationreports and more with outstanding accuracy.
Minimizes Workload of Healthcare Specialists
By utilizing well–organized medical transcription service
,healthcare professionals can save their time and effortneeded for preparing different medical reports. This helpsthem to focus on the treatment activities for their patients.Moreover, these services help medical facilities to reducethe investment needed for performing medical transcriptiont asks inside the practice. Quality medical transcriptionservices also offers benefits such as:
• Digital dictation machines and toll free number dictation facility
• Quality assurance at three levels
• Reduce paperwork in your practice
• Higher security and confidentiality for all data
• HIPAA compliance
• File transferring: secured FTP and browser based 256 bit AESencryption protocol
• Swift turnaround time
• Round-the-clock technical assistance
Depend on a Right Service Provider
If you are planning to outsource the medical transcription jobs of your medical facility, make sure to locate the right service provider. An established provider can offer quality services at competitive rates to meet your specific requirements.
Medical Transcription Outsourcing - Helps Foster Business Transformation
The process of healthcare has evolved into a complex business requiring the efforts of the management, administrative; information technology and other non- healthcare related personnel to ensure that the healthcare facility can provide quality care while still remaining profitable. Admittedly the main role in the provision of quality care is that of the healthcare professionals, but the other staff in the healthcare facility play a vital role in ensuring that healthcare professionals can concentrate on the process of providing quality care by ensuring all other functions are taken care of.
Similarly the process of healthcare draws inputs from various sources; some related to the healthcare field and some from other aspects that involve the business side of healthcare. To be effective and to function profitably in today's competitive environment it is important to have good support for the smooth running the healthcare facility. Information regarding the process of care is one such aspect that plays a vital role in several aspects of healthcare including risk management and revenue management.
Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the audio of the healthcare professionals' encounter with patients. Though essentially this is the service provided, the process of rendering these services is much more complex involving significant investment of time, capital and resources to be effective and meet all the quality criteria. A good fix to ensure that patient medical records are created in a professional manner, meeting all the quality criteria is to outsource the entire patient medical record creation process to a professional service provider.
Outsourcing ensures that patient medical records are created accurately, delivered on a timely basis, transmitted through secure channels and using technology that provides multiple benefits while still being easy to use. Not only this outsourcing effectively results in cost savings as high as 40%-50% and also acts as a catalyst in quickening the revenue cycle.
To put it in a nutshell, outsourced services can help foster business transformation.
What is business transformation and how do outsourced medical transcription services aid in business transformation?
Business transformation has been defined as a key executive management initiative that attempts to align people, process and technology initiatives of an organization more closely with the business strategy and vision of the organization. This is done by aligning resources towards desired outcomes such as increased revenue and increased customer satisfaction.
Medical transcription services can help foster business transformation by providing services that help in achieving the desired outcome:
Increased revenue: These services help in this aspect by providing support that helps in the following areas:
- Help healthcare professionals concentrate on providing quality care: Transcription vendors help healthcare professionals retain the preferred and familiar method of documenting the patient encounter of dictation to transcription using familiar modes of dictation. This helps doctors/support staff/clinics/hospitals optimize their limited time and maximize their productivity resulting in better revenue.
- Reduce costs:Availing the services of a vendor also helps healthcare facilities save as much as 40% to 50% on cost of medical transcription. It also ensures that the fixed costs of having this activity in-house are essentially transformed to variable costs
- Reduce overheads: This ensures that overheads incurred towards in-house medical transcription like real estate, equipment, information technology can be redirected to the core business of providing healthcare.
- Quicken reimbursements: Efficient creation of patient medical records help in accelerating reimbursements as patient medical records provide the base for coding and billing.
- EMR/ EHR adoption: Outsourced medical transcription services also enable the healthcare facility to adopt EMR/EHR by enabling transmission of data using HL7 interface. Transcription providers also provide editing and proofreading services for front-end speech recognition software transcripts.
Customer satisfaction: The provision of quality healthcare requires quality information; outsourced medical transcription services enable this by providing services that include:
- Accuracy: This method of documenting the patient encounter ensure that the information in the patient medical records is captured with maximum accuracy using a quality assurance process that involves multiple levels. Creation of patient medical records through this process also helps preserve the narrative portion of the patient medical record, which is an important component for quality care, and risk management
HIPAA / HITECH compliance:These service providers provide HIPAA compliant services, which is essential to preserve the sanctity of the patient- healthcare professional relationship.
Increased focus on patient: By enabling healthcare professionals to document the patient encounter using the familiar method of dictation- transcription instead of using point and click templates, outsourced medical transcription service providers help the healthcare professionals focus on the patient rather than the documentation process resulting in better customer satisfaction.
It can be seen that choosing the right medical transcription service provider can help foster business transformation.
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Similarly the process of healthcare draws inputs from various sources; some related to the healthcare field and some from other aspects that involve the business side of healthcare. To be effective and to function profitably in today's competitive environment it is important to have good support for the smooth running the healthcare facility. Information regarding the process of care is one such aspect that plays a vital role in several aspects of healthcare including risk management and revenue management.
Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the audio of the healthcare professionals' encounter with patients. Though essentially this is the service provided, the process of rendering these services is much more complex involving significant investment of time, capital and resources to be effective and meet all the quality criteria. A good fix to ensure that patient medical records are created in a professional manner, meeting all the quality criteria is to outsource the entire patient medical record creation process to a professional service provider.
Outsourcing ensures that patient medical records are created accurately, delivered on a timely basis, transmitted through secure channels and using technology that provides multiple benefits while still being easy to use. Not only this outsourcing effectively results in cost savings as high as 40%-50% and also acts as a catalyst in quickening the revenue cycle.
To put it in a nutshell, outsourced services can help foster business transformation.
What is business transformation and how do outsourced medical transcription services aid in business transformation?
Business transformation has been defined as a key executive management initiative that attempts to align people, process and technology initiatives of an organization more closely with the business strategy and vision of the organization. This is done by aligning resources towards desired outcomes such as increased revenue and increased customer satisfaction.
Medical transcription services can help foster business transformation by providing services that help in achieving the desired outcome:
Increased revenue: These services help in this aspect by providing support that helps in the following areas:
- Help healthcare professionals concentrate on providing quality care: Transcription vendors help healthcare professionals retain the preferred and familiar method of documenting the patient encounter of dictation to transcription using familiar modes of dictation. This helps doctors/support staff/clinics/hospitals optimize their limited time and maximize their productivity resulting in better revenue.
- Reduce costs:Availing the services of a vendor also helps healthcare facilities save as much as 40% to 50% on cost of medical transcription. It also ensures that the fixed costs of having this activity in-house are essentially transformed to variable costs
- Reduce overheads: This ensures that overheads incurred towards in-house medical transcription like real estate, equipment, information technology can be redirected to the core business of providing healthcare.
- Quicken reimbursements: Efficient creation of patient medical records help in accelerating reimbursements as patient medical records provide the base for coding and billing.
- EMR/ EHR adoption: Outsourced medical transcription services also enable the healthcare facility to adopt EMR/EHR by enabling transmission of data using HL7 interface. Transcription providers also provide editing and proofreading services for front-end speech recognition software transcripts.
Customer satisfaction: The provision of quality healthcare requires quality information; outsourced medical transcription services enable this by providing services that include:
- Accuracy: This method of documenting the patient encounter ensure that the information in the patient medical records is captured with maximum accuracy using a quality assurance process that involves multiple levels. Creation of patient medical records through this process also helps preserve the narrative portion of the patient medical record, which is an important component for quality care, and risk management
HIPAA / HITECH compliance:These service providers provide HIPAA compliant services, which is essential to preserve the sanctity of the patient- healthcare professional relationship.
Increased focus on patient: By enabling healthcare professionals to document the patient encounter using the familiar method of dictation- transcription instead of using point and click templates, outsourced medical transcription service providers help the healthcare professionals focus on the patient rather than the documentation process resulting in better customer satisfaction.
It can be seen that choosing the right medical transcription service provider can help foster business transformation.
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Lake Regional Selects GroupOne Health Source to Implement eClinicalWorks® EMR
The Main Health Care Provider for Residents and Visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks Chooses Leading Medical Consulting Firm and Billing Specialist to Implement Award Winning Electronic Medical Records Software
JEFFERSON CITY, MO--(Marketwire - February 28, 2011) - GroupOne Health Source, Inc, an electronic medical record consulting and billing firm, was selected by Lake Regional Medical Group to implement the eClinicalWorks (eCW) electronic medical records system. The group has approximately 50 affiliated healthcare providers.
GroupOne Health Source is a "Gold Certified" distribution, installation, training and implementation partner of the CCHIT and stimulus certified eClinicalWorks system. eClinicalWorks has maintained current CCHIT certification of its Ambulatory EMRs since 2006 and has been certified for Meaningful Use by an ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB). GroupOne has been a partner with eClinicalWorks and a top reseller since 2004.
Lake Regional Medical Group is a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of Lake Regional Health System, a leader in implementing technology for electronic medical records. Recently, the hospital achieved Stage 6 of the federal government's electronic medical record adoption model, a level reached by less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals.
"Service quality, patient-centered care, and effective technology are priorities throughout the organization," said Kevin McRoberts, senior vice president of business development for Lake Regional Health System. "We selected the unified eClinicalWorks system for its superior functionality and overall excellent performance. We chose GroupOne as our implementation partner because of their unique combination of skills, knowledge of the eCW application and their overall expertise in the best practices of modern, paperless medical clinics."
"We are pleased to be working with the Lake Regional Medical Group," said Dianne Swanson, president and co-founder of GroupOne. "The eClinicalWorks electronic health record system will be an important resource that will allow Lake Regional practices to effectively and efficiently meet high quality of care goals set by the system, through Meaningful Use and other initiatives designed to improve patient care."
About Lake Regional Medical Group
Lake Regional Medical Group operates seven free-standing primary care clinics, 14 specialty clinics, three retail pharmacies and an urgent care clinic. Lake Regional Health System employs more than 1,200 individuals, and 100 providers serve on its medical staff. The hospital serves as the main health care provider for the estimated five million visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks each year.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market. The company's unified electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solutions are proven for every market segment: large practice groups, as well as medium, small and solo practices regardless of specialty. With an established customer base of more than 50,000 providers and 250,000 healthcare professionals across all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded multiple top industry honors including being named to the Inc. 5000 in 2009, 2008 and 2007, and prominently placed in a report released by IDC company Health Industry Insights, titled Healthcare Provider Industry Short List Ambulatory Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records.
About GroupOne Health Source, Inc.
Founded in 1991, GroupOne Health Source is a full-service medical billing, transcription, technology and consulting firm. GroupOne's "Best in Class" services have been recognized by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in the association's list of top medical business service organizations. GroupOne has extensive experience in all aspects of healthcare practice management, and maintains a diverse client base located throughout the U.S.
GroupOne's Medical Billing Center also utilizes eClinicalWorks to provide billing services for hundreds of physician practices. As an everyday user of the eClinicalWorks system, GroupOne has a unique advantage when implementing the award winning system in a variety of practice settings. When transitioning to an EHR, it's an important advantage to utilize a firm that possesses eCW expertise, Electronic Health Records (EHR) billing experts, and Meaningful Use consulting services.
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO--(Marketwire - February 28, 2011) - GroupOne Health Source, Inc, an electronic medical record consulting and billing firm, was selected by Lake Regional Medical Group to implement the eClinicalWorks (eCW) electronic medical records system. The group has approximately 50 affiliated healthcare providers.
GroupOne Health Source is a "Gold Certified" distribution, installation, training and implementation partner of the CCHIT and stimulus certified eClinicalWorks system. eClinicalWorks has maintained current CCHIT certification of its Ambulatory EMRs since 2006 and has been certified for Meaningful Use by an ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB). GroupOne has been a partner with eClinicalWorks and a top reseller since 2004.
Lake Regional Medical Group is a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of Lake Regional Health System, a leader in implementing technology for electronic medical records. Recently, the hospital achieved Stage 6 of the federal government's electronic medical record adoption model, a level reached by less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals.
"Service quality, patient-centered care, and effective technology are priorities throughout the organization," said Kevin McRoberts, senior vice president of business development for Lake Regional Health System. "We selected the unified eClinicalWorks system for its superior functionality and overall excellent performance. We chose GroupOne as our implementation partner because of their unique combination of skills, knowledge of the eCW application and their overall expertise in the best practices of modern, paperless medical clinics."
"We are pleased to be working with the Lake Regional Medical Group," said Dianne Swanson, president and co-founder of GroupOne. "The eClinicalWorks electronic health record system will be an important resource that will allow Lake Regional practices to effectively and efficiently meet high quality of care goals set by the system, through Meaningful Use and other initiatives designed to improve patient care."
About Lake Regional Medical Group
Lake Regional Medical Group operates seven free-standing primary care clinics, 14 specialty clinics, three retail pharmacies and an urgent care clinic. Lake Regional Health System employs more than 1,200 individuals, and 100 providers serve on its medical staff. The hospital serves as the main health care provider for the estimated five million visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks each year.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market. The company's unified electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solutions are proven for every market segment: large practice groups, as well as medium, small and solo practices regardless of specialty. With an established customer base of more than 50,000 providers and 250,000 healthcare professionals across all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded multiple top industry honors including being named to the Inc. 5000 in 2009, 2008 and 2007, and prominently placed in a report released by IDC company Health Industry Insights, titled Healthcare Provider Industry Short List Ambulatory Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records.
About GroupOne Health Source, Inc.
Founded in 1991, GroupOne Health Source is a full-service medical billing, transcription, technology and consulting firm. GroupOne's "Best in Class" services have been recognized by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in the association's list of top medical business service organizations. GroupOne has extensive experience in all aspects of healthcare practice management, and maintains a diverse client base located throughout the U.S.
GroupOne's Medical Billing Center also utilizes eClinicalWorks to provide billing services for hundreds of physician practices. As an everyday user of the eClinicalWorks system, GroupOne has a unique advantage when implementing the award winning system in a variety of practice settings. When transitioning to an EHR, it's an important advantage to utilize a firm that possesses eCW expertise, Electronic Health Records (EHR) billing experts, and Meaningful Use consulting services.
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Medical Transcription Outsourcing - Helps Foster Business Transformation
The process of healthcare has evolved into a complex business requiring the efforts of the management, administrative; information technology and other non- healthcare related personnel to ensure that the healthcare facility can provide quality care while still remaining profitable. Admittedly the main role in the provision of quality care is that of the healthcare professionals, but the other staff in the healthcare facility play a vital role in ensuring that healthcare professionals can concentrate on the process of providing quality care by ensuring all other functions are taken care of.
Similarly the process of healthcare draws inputs from various sources; some related to the healthcare field and some from other aspects that involve the business side of healthcare. To be effective and to function profitably in today's competitive environment it is important to have good support for the smooth running the healthcare facility. Information regarding the process of care is one such aspect that plays a vital role in several aspects of healthcare including risk management and revenue management.
Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the audio of the healthcare professionals' encounter with patients. Though essentially this is the service provided, the process of rendering these services is much more complex involving significant investment of time, capital and resources to be effective and meet all the quality criteria. A good fix to ensure that patient medical records are created in a professional manner, meeting all the quality criteria is to outsource the entire patient medical record creation process to a professional service provider.
Outsourcing ensures that patient medical records are created accurately, delivered on a timely basis, transmitted through secure channels and using technology that provides multiple benefits while still being easy to use. Not only this outsourcing effectively results in cost savings as high as 40%-50% and also acts as a catalyst in quickening the revenue cycle.
To put it in a nutshell, outsourced services can help foster business transformation.
What is business transformation and how do outsourced medical transcription services aid in business transformation?
Business transformation has been defined as a key executive management initiative that attempts to align people, process and technology initiatives of an organization more closely with the business strategy and vision of the organization. This is done by aligning resources towards desired outcomes such as increased revenue and increased customer satisfaction.
Medical transcription services can help foster business transformation by providing services that help in achieving the desired outcome:
Increased revenue: These services help in this aspect by providing support that helps in the following areas:
- Help healthcare professionals concentrate on providing quality care: Transcription vendors help healthcare professionals retain the preferred and familiar method of documenting the patient encounter of dictation to transcription using familiar modes of dictation. This helps doctors/support staff/clinics/hospitals optimize their limited time and maximize their productivity resulting in better revenue.
- Reduce costs:Availing the services of a vendor also helps healthcare facilities save as much as 40% to 50% on cost of medical transcription. It also ensures that the fixed costs of having this activity in-house are essentially transformed to variable costs
- Reduce overheads: This ensures that overheads incurred towards in-house medical transcription like real estate, equipment, information technology can be redirected to the core business of providing healthcare.
- Quicken reimbursements: Efficient creation of patient medical records help in accelerating reimbursements as patient medical records provide the base for coding and billing.
- EMR/ EHR adoption: Outsourced medical transcription services also enable the healthcare facility to adopt EMR/EHR by enabling transmission of data using HL7 interface. Transcription providers also provide editing and proofreading services for front-end speech recognition software transcripts.
Customer satisfaction: The provision of quality healthcare requires quality information; outsourced medical transcription services enable this by providing services that include:
- Accuracy: This method of documenting the patient encounter ensure that the information in the patient medical records is captured with maximum accuracy using a quality assurance process that involves multiple levels. Creation of patient medical records through this process also helps preserve the narrative portion of the patient medical record, which is an important component for quality care, and risk management
HIPAA / HITECH compliance:These service providers provide HIPAA compliant services, which is essential to preserve the sanctity of the patient- healthcare professional relationship.
Increased focus on patient: By enabling healthcare professionals to document the patient encounter using the familiar method of dictation- transcription instead of using point and click templates, outsourced medical transcription service providers help the healthcare professionals focus on the patient rather than the documentation process resulting in better customer satisfaction.
It can be seen that choosing the right medical transcription service provider can help foster business transformation.
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Similarly the process of healthcare draws inputs from various sources; some related to the healthcare field and some from other aspects that involve the business side of healthcare. To be effective and to function profitably in today's competitive environment it is important to have good support for the smooth running the healthcare facility. Information regarding the process of care is one such aspect that plays a vital role in several aspects of healthcare including risk management and revenue management.
Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records from the audio of the healthcare professionals' encounter with patients. Though essentially this is the service provided, the process of rendering these services is much more complex involving significant investment of time, capital and resources to be effective and meet all the quality criteria. A good fix to ensure that patient medical records are created in a professional manner, meeting all the quality criteria is to outsource the entire patient medical record creation process to a professional service provider.
Outsourcing ensures that patient medical records are created accurately, delivered on a timely basis, transmitted through secure channels and using technology that provides multiple benefits while still being easy to use. Not only this outsourcing effectively results in cost savings as high as 40%-50% and also acts as a catalyst in quickening the revenue cycle.
To put it in a nutshell, outsourced services can help foster business transformation.
What is business transformation and how do outsourced medical transcription services aid in business transformation?
Business transformation has been defined as a key executive management initiative that attempts to align people, process and technology initiatives of an organization more closely with the business strategy and vision of the organization. This is done by aligning resources towards desired outcomes such as increased revenue and increased customer satisfaction.
Medical transcription services can help foster business transformation by providing services that help in achieving the desired outcome:
Increased revenue: These services help in this aspect by providing support that helps in the following areas:
- Help healthcare professionals concentrate on providing quality care: Transcription vendors help healthcare professionals retain the preferred and familiar method of documenting the patient encounter of dictation to transcription using familiar modes of dictation. This helps doctors/support staff/clinics/hospitals optimize their limited time and maximize their productivity resulting in better revenue.
- Reduce costs:Availing the services of a vendor also helps healthcare facilities save as much as 40% to 50% on cost of medical transcription. It also ensures that the fixed costs of having this activity in-house are essentially transformed to variable costs
- Reduce overheads: This ensures that overheads incurred towards in-house medical transcription like real estate, equipment, information technology can be redirected to the core business of providing healthcare.
- Quicken reimbursements: Efficient creation of patient medical records help in accelerating reimbursements as patient medical records provide the base for coding and billing.
- EMR/ EHR adoption: Outsourced medical transcription services also enable the healthcare facility to adopt EMR/EHR by enabling transmission of data using HL7 interface. Transcription providers also provide editing and proofreading services for front-end speech recognition software transcripts.
Customer satisfaction: The provision of quality healthcare requires quality information; outsourced medical transcription services enable this by providing services that include:
- Accuracy: This method of documenting the patient encounter ensure that the information in the patient medical records is captured with maximum accuracy using a quality assurance process that involves multiple levels. Creation of patient medical records through this process also helps preserve the narrative portion of the patient medical record, which is an important component for quality care, and risk management
HIPAA / HITECH compliance:These service providers provide HIPAA compliant services, which is essential to preserve the sanctity of the patient- healthcare professional relationship.
Increased focus on patient: By enabling healthcare professionals to document the patient encounter using the familiar method of dictation- transcription instead of using point and click templates, outsourced medical transcription service providers help the healthcare professionals focus on the patient rather than the documentation process resulting in better customer satisfaction.
It can be seen that choosing the right medical transcription service provider can help foster business transformation.
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Transcription Service: Still Relevant in the Dawn of EMR Software
Recently, electronic medical records have been able to document many of the outpatient and inpatient visit, but many specialties still require the ability to become more descriptive in their narratives. Although there's been a rise in the use of EMR software, the healthcare community still heavily relies on transcription companies to transcribe their reports. Some large healthcare facilities and networks rely on their in-house staff to handle a certain department, while the rest of the workload and possible backlog is handled by a transcription company.
Outsourcing the transcription process has become one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to handle the documentation process. Many facilities across the nation are overwhelmed by some of the common problems that come along with in-house staff including backlog and attrition. After facilities begin to experience frequent backlog, they will continue to play "catch-up" in order to stay ahead of mounting dictations waiting to be transcribed. However, not all medical transcription companies are created equally and some may not meet all of the needs of a facility.
A reputable company usually has the signs of a true industry leader. Successful MT companies will enable healthcare facilities to focus on delivering quality patient care while giving staff and administrators the peace of mind that their reports are handled effectively. As a result, details such as turnaround time and accuracy are handled behind the scenes while the facility shines with outstanding patient care. Additionally, an experienced transcription company can easily handle interfacing with EMR, HIS, and Radiology software - offering a true solution that won't disrupt current workflows.
Even with the increased awareness of EMR software in large physician practices and health information systems updated regularly, there is still a need for quality medical transcription service. medical transcription companies keep pace with the latest technology in the healthcare industry to continue delivering the service that is integral to a thriving healthcare facility.
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Outsourcing the transcription process has become one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to handle the documentation process. Many facilities across the nation are overwhelmed by some of the common problems that come along with in-house staff including backlog and attrition. After facilities begin to experience frequent backlog, they will continue to play "catch-up" in order to stay ahead of mounting dictations waiting to be transcribed. However, not all medical transcription companies are created equally and some may not meet all of the needs of a facility.
A reputable company usually has the signs of a true industry leader. Successful MT companies will enable healthcare facilities to focus on delivering quality patient care while giving staff and administrators the peace of mind that their reports are handled effectively. As a result, details such as turnaround time and accuracy are handled behind the scenes while the facility shines with outstanding patient care. Additionally, an experienced transcription company can easily handle interfacing with EMR, HIS, and Radiology software - offering a true solution that won't disrupt current workflows.
Even with the increased awareness of EMR software in large physician practices and health information systems updated regularly, there is still a need for quality medical transcription service. medical transcription companies keep pace with the latest technology in the healthcare industry to continue delivering the service that is integral to a thriving healthcare facility.
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Welcome to Imperial Transcription Services
Imperial Transcriptions is a leading transcription service company which is professionally operated and focuses on quality transcription services. We provide medical transcription services to various hospitals, clinics, and doctors across US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, etc. We aim at providing quick and accurate medical transcription services to our clients and maintain high levels of integrity, ethics and compliance within the organization and also towards our clients.
Imperial Transcriptions is your one-stop destination where all sorts of medical transcription requirements will be fulfilled in the most quality-oriented and accurate manner. We have years of experience of working with domestic as well as international clients from all over the world. The 12 hour turnaround time ensures that the transcribed reports are delivered before the next morning.
Imperial Transcriptions is your one-stop destination where all sorts of medical transcription requirements will be fulfilled in the most quality-oriented and accurate manner. We have years of experience of working with domestic as well as international clients from all over the world. The 12 hour turnaround time ensures that the transcribed reports are delivered before the next morning.
Kodak and Digital Records, Inc. Help White-Wilson Medical Center Digitize Critical Records
More accessible digital records help to improve patient care
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 23—Large, multi-practice medical firms now have greater access to electronic and paper-based records through intelligent document conversion services. White-Wilson Medical Center, a large, multi-specialty physician group on Florida’s Emerald Coast, is easily digitizing more than 8 million critical medical images. The center recently selected solutions from Digital Records, Inc. (based in Greenacres, Fla.) to power their document conversion requirements and needs using the KODAK i4200, KODAK i4600, and other KODAK Desktop Scanners. The converted documents will be available for viewing in White-Wilson Medical Center’s recently implemented Greenway Medical EMR System.
The demands on large, multi-disciplined physicians’ practices continue to rise. Recent legislation changes have created a demand for digital access to healthcare documents, along with an influx of newly insured patients. Keeping up with this increase in patient information requires fast, effective digitization of electronic medical records. Intelligent scanning solutions like the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners used at White-Wilson, allow mid-sized and large medical practices to process information at production-level speeds—and prepare information for a wider range of business processes and workflows.
“Delivering the most accurate information to all of our patients ultimately helps us to provide excellent, quality care,” said Terri Powell, Supervisor of Health Information, White-Wilson Medical Center. “The addition of the Digital Record, Inc.’s medical scanning services using Greenway EMR and the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners helps our physicians and staff implement a more efficient patient flow process, and ensure all our offices provide coordinated and comprehensive healthcare for our patients.”
The growth of medical and health services manager occupations are slated to increase by 16 percent into 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the health care industry prepares for overall growth, physician groups like White-Wilson Medical Center will need to cover a wider, more specialized range of services than a traditional physician’s office. White-Wilson’s offerings include neurosurgery, pediatrics, gastroenterology, urology and a variety of other specialties. Digital Records, Inc.’s seven-step scanning service uses a defined records management process to scan image, index and help ensure the integrity of data.
“Using the KODAK i4200 and i4600 Scanners with Digital Records, Inc.’s document conversion services, will easily import information into Greenway Medical’s EMR Solution. This will effectively help White-Wilson capture and convert millions of images into digital information,” said Allan German, VP of Healthcare, Digital Records, Inc. “Businesses can quickly become more accountable and more productive with intelligent conversion services that provide functions like back-file and day-forward conversions, ROI analysis, HIPAA and FDA compliance. These services can help them manage a range of information including patient charts, reimbursements, accounts payable and receivable, and others.”
Digital Records’ scanning and records management services utilizes software with a simple, easy-to-use interface that incorporates user-friendly features like patient chart progress reports, point-of-service patient check-in dashboards, and intuitive billing processes. Medical center staff can use the software and be more compliant, decrease errors, and simplify their overall business processes. Digital Records, Inc. makes it easy to import various healthcare document information into Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), or other healthcare applications.
“Kodak works with solutions providers like Digital Records, Inc. to help physicians’ offices and other medical practices discover more simplified, efficient ways to manage and convert their documents for easy access into their electronic medical records,” said Jody Miller, Business Development Director, Health Solutions, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “Our solutions are easy-to-use, accessible and scalable, allowing medical providers to manage critical information, and enabling them to focus on patient care and growing their practice.”
For more information on the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners, visit www.kodak/go/i4000.
KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support. KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging, data storage and retail industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.
About Digital Records, Inc., located in Greenacres Florida
Digital Records, Inc. has been recognized as a complete, ‘All-In-One’ solution for Electronic Document Conversion, Data Capture, and Data Entry Services From our industry leading document conversion services to document destruction (shredding), Digital Records Inc. provides our clients (our Partners) with all the tools that they need to make their transition into Electronic Health Records a smooth and unobtrusive one.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 23—Large, multi-practice medical firms now have greater access to electronic and paper-based records through intelligent document conversion services. White-Wilson Medical Center, a large, multi-specialty physician group on Florida’s Emerald Coast, is easily digitizing more than 8 million critical medical images. The center recently selected solutions from Digital Records, Inc. (based in Greenacres, Fla.) to power their document conversion requirements and needs using the KODAK i4200, KODAK i4600, and other KODAK Desktop Scanners. The converted documents will be available for viewing in White-Wilson Medical Center’s recently implemented Greenway Medical EMR System.
The demands on large, multi-disciplined physicians’ practices continue to rise. Recent legislation changes have created a demand for digital access to healthcare documents, along with an influx of newly insured patients. Keeping up with this increase in patient information requires fast, effective digitization of electronic medical records. Intelligent scanning solutions like the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners used at White-Wilson, allow mid-sized and large medical practices to process information at production-level speeds—and prepare information for a wider range of business processes and workflows.
“Delivering the most accurate information to all of our patients ultimately helps us to provide excellent, quality care,” said Terri Powell, Supervisor of Health Information, White-Wilson Medical Center. “The addition of the Digital Record, Inc.’s medical scanning services using Greenway EMR and the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners helps our physicians and staff implement a more efficient patient flow process, and ensure all our offices provide coordinated and comprehensive healthcare for our patients.”
The growth of medical and health services manager occupations are slated to increase by 16 percent into 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the health care industry prepares for overall growth, physician groups like White-Wilson Medical Center will need to cover a wider, more specialized range of services than a traditional physician’s office. White-Wilson’s offerings include neurosurgery, pediatrics, gastroenterology, urology and a variety of other specialties. Digital Records, Inc.’s seven-step scanning service uses a defined records management process to scan image, index and help ensure the integrity of data.
“Using the KODAK i4200 and i4600 Scanners with Digital Records, Inc.’s document conversion services, will easily import information into Greenway Medical’s EMR Solution. This will effectively help White-Wilson capture and convert millions of images into digital information,” said Allan German, VP of Healthcare, Digital Records, Inc. “Businesses can quickly become more accountable and more productive with intelligent conversion services that provide functions like back-file and day-forward conversions, ROI analysis, HIPAA and FDA compliance. These services can help them manage a range of information including patient charts, reimbursements, accounts payable and receivable, and others.”
Digital Records’ scanning and records management services utilizes software with a simple, easy-to-use interface that incorporates user-friendly features like patient chart progress reports, point-of-service patient check-in dashboards, and intuitive billing processes. Medical center staff can use the software and be more compliant, decrease errors, and simplify their overall business processes. Digital Records, Inc. makes it easy to import various healthcare document information into Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), or other healthcare applications.
“Kodak works with solutions providers like Digital Records, Inc. to help physicians’ offices and other medical practices discover more simplified, efficient ways to manage and convert their documents for easy access into their electronic medical records,” said Jody Miller, Business Development Director, Health Solutions, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “Our solutions are easy-to-use, accessible and scalable, allowing medical providers to manage critical information, and enabling them to focus on patient care and growing their practice.”
For more information on the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners, visit www.kodak/go/i4000.
KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support. KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging, data storage and retail industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.
About Digital Records, Inc., located in Greenacres Florida
Digital Records, Inc. has been recognized as a complete, ‘All-In-One’ solution for Electronic Document Conversion, Data Capture, and Data Entry Services From our industry leading document conversion services to document destruction (shredding), Digital Records Inc. provides our clients (our Partners) with all the tools that they need to make their transition into Electronic Health Records a smooth and unobtrusive one.
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Study: Most Americans support EMRs
CHICAGO – Seventy-eight percent of Americans favor the use of electronic medical records, according to a recent study by NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research organization.
The study was published in the February edition of the journal HSR: Health Services Research.
Researchers say this report is different because most previous studies of EMRs have focused on the attitudes of clinicians or health organizations. Surprisingly few have focused on the attitudes of consumers toward health IT and, of those, none were based on a sample that fully represents the American people.
Key findings of the study are:
• Fifty-nine percent believe EMRs could reduce health costs
• Seventy-two percent support sharing of health care information among providers
• Eighty percent favored use of e-prescribing
• Seventy-nine percent thought that personal health records would help patients to be better informed about their health.
• Despite the fact that 48 percent of Americans are concerned about the privacy of medical records, fully 64 percent said that the benefits of EMRs outweigh privacy concerns
• The study also found that Americans aren’t without their reservations. Forty-four percent said they are not willing to pay to increase the use of health IT, and 57 percent said that use of health IT would make no difference in their choice of a physician.
Individuals with lower income and those who have less familiarity with electronic technology have less favorable attitudes towards health IT, the study found. Researchers say this implies that some of the populations that are most likely to benefit from health IT may be least open-minded about it.
“Our core finding is that a large majority of Americans support use of health IT to improve healthcare and safety, and reduce costs, which suggests that government and industry efforts to increase the effectiveness and use of health IT are generally consistent with the public’s wishes,” said Dan Gaylin, NORC’s executive vice president for Research, and the lead author of the study. “But there is still room for efforts to demonstrate the advantages of health IT among some important demographic groups.”
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The study was published in the February edition of the journal HSR: Health Services Research.
Researchers say this report is different because most previous studies of EMRs have focused on the attitudes of clinicians or health organizations. Surprisingly few have focused on the attitudes of consumers toward health IT and, of those, none were based on a sample that fully represents the American people.
Key findings of the study are:
• Fifty-nine percent believe EMRs could reduce health costs
• Seventy-two percent support sharing of health care information among providers
• Eighty percent favored use of e-prescribing
• Seventy-nine percent thought that personal health records would help patients to be better informed about their health.
• Despite the fact that 48 percent of Americans are concerned about the privacy of medical records, fully 64 percent said that the benefits of EMRs outweigh privacy concerns
• The study also found that Americans aren’t without their reservations. Forty-four percent said they are not willing to pay to increase the use of health IT, and 57 percent said that use of health IT would make no difference in their choice of a physician.
Individuals with lower income and those who have less familiarity with electronic technology have less favorable attitudes towards health IT, the study found. Researchers say this implies that some of the populations that are most likely to benefit from health IT may be least open-minded about it.
“Our core finding is that a large majority of Americans support use of health IT to improve healthcare and safety, and reduce costs, which suggests that government and industry efforts to increase the effectiveness and use of health IT are generally consistent with the public’s wishes,” said Dan Gaylin, NORC’s executive vice president for Research, and the lead author of the study. “But there is still room for efforts to demonstrate the advantages of health IT among some important demographic groups.”
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Costing Of Outsourcing Medical Transcription Services
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Ensuring 99% accuracy rates, the recognized medical transcription companies complete all projects within minimum turnaround time. In addition, the medical transcription Services provider contains Quality Associates, Client Account Managers, Proof-readers, Editors and Transcriptionists for the superior quality suppliers. This is done for the client according to their demand because many clients can get transcription services according to their specific templates or format.
The pricing structure is based on charges for every 65 character line, depending on the complexity and volume of the voice files to be transcribed. Medical transcription companies count a 65-character line as any letter, number or symbol necessary for the final appearance and content of a document, including the space bar.
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Although every medical transcription services providers offer the service of HIPAA Compliant i.e Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and brainstorm is one of the company of amongst all. BrainStorm Transcription Services is well aware of its professional obligations towards HIPAA regulations. We continuously upgrade our knowledge base and transcription systems to comply with HIPAA regulations.
Ensuring 99% accuracy rates, the recognized medical transcription companies complete all projects within minimum turnaround time. In addition, the medical transcription Services provider contains Quality Associates, Client Account Managers, Proof-readers, Editors and Transcriptionists for the superior quality suppliers. This is done for the client according to their demand because many clients can get transcription services according to their specific templates or format.
The pricing structure is based on charges for every 65 character line, depending on the complexity and volume of the voice files to be transcribed. Medical transcription companies count a 65-character line as any letter, number or symbol necessary for the final appearance and content of a document, including the space bar.
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