Accurate and timely documentation is vital to the success of a healthcare organization, which is why it’s so important to continuously improve healthcare documentation. Improving healthcare documentation reduces costs and improves overall productivity. Many organizations employ a clinical documentation improvement team because the potential time savings are drastic. In order to improve healthcare documentation for your organization, you’ll need to examine the areas that can detract from good documentation.
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Medical dictation apps are the result of a natural progression in dictation technology. Dictation is part of a clinician’s daily routine – and as technology progresses, there are more ways to save time while dictating. Speech recognition has made dictating much more efficient for healthcare professionals. The most feature-rich medical speech recognition platforms exist only on PCs – and some on Macs, like SayIt from Dolbey. However, a desktop computer isn’t the only way to get accurate medical speech recognition, and it’s not always the most practical. There are now medical dictation apps for iPhone and Android that immediately recognize speech or send audio files to a speech recognition platform in a secure, HIPAA-compliant manner.
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In today’s complex healthcare environment, clinicians are desperately looking for ways to improve efficiency and decrease the burden of clinical documentation. Speech recognition is the obvious answer, but you need the right solution.
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The current pandemic is a major issue worldwide, meaning telehealth solutions play a more vital role than ever before. Telehealth helps healthcare facilities avoid becoming overcrowded and allows patients to get medical advice without putting themselves at risk of contracting a virus.

Telehealth is expected to grow by up to 700% by 2025, according to the study by Frost & Sullivan. However, to practice virtual medicine and avoid security concerns, US healthcare providers have to ensure the technology they use for this type of communication is HIPAA compliant.

Let’s look at how healthcare specialists can apply technology-driven approaches and provide patients with HIPAA compliant telehealth solutions.
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Physicians, pathologists and laboratory technicians rely on laboratory information systems to manage their workload and streamline the operational efficiency of the laboratory. However, they are often still tied to their keyboard when it comes to documenting sample descriptions, observations, test findings, and diagnoses. Accurate speech recognition is one of the latest tools to drive higher per FTE case throughput in the lab.
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So much time gets spent on documentation in your EHR that little efficiencies, like macros, can stack up to major time savings. Adding macros to your daily routine will allow you to run through each of your tasks faster.

A macro is a repeatable sequence of steps that you first record, then enable to automatically repeat the same steps on your computer any number of times. You can assign a macro to a certain key or combination of keys; you can also use voice-activated macros for EHRs to quickly navigate without using a keyboard or mouse.
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Clinician burnout has become a serious issue for medical personnel. Lack of sleep, inefficient workflows, limited time with patients, strict regulations, constant stress, inability to sustain a healthy work-life balance; you name it. All this makes doctors and nurses feel exhausted and dissatisfied with their work, achievements, and even themselves.
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced healthcare providers to ramp up their telehealth services. Telehealth may seem like a temporary solution, but it’s here to stay. In fact, telehealth is one of the top 10 trends to leverage this year.  It’s important for your health practice to know the current trends, potential benefits, as well as challenges in this switch to online healthcare.

Read more for our tips on remote care in 2021!

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Medical practices today are facing a larger set of problems than ever before. From increasing patient satisfaction levels to choosing and implementing the best technologies, here are ways that medical offices can improve efficiency.

New technologies and automations have changed how medical professionals approach each problem, which has improved the patient experience. with wide-reaching long-term benefits.

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