EHR-Integrated Dictation

Cost-effective patient documentation that’s more accurate and complete

The basic challenge for facilities that pursue Electronic Health Record (EHR) integration of voice and structured input is to combine the advantages of two different methods of information capture: the ease and speed of a structured template, with the flexibility that only dictation can provide.

Within the DocQment Enterprise Platform® (DEP), MedQuist offers a solution that integrates “partial dictations” with a template-based clinical documentation process, enabling physicians to complete the EHR without changing their documentation workflow. This EHR-integrated dictation allows them to capture the specific, detailed narrative context of the patient encounter, and meet other, more in-depth documentation requirements that are not a good fit for a template.

For example, a physician may dictate multiple, separate voice “snippets” of dictation for a single patient encounter. MedQuist’s DEP technology sends those converted text snippets back to the EHR for placement within the structured encounter document, in the appropriate sequence and section. This documentation then feeds directly into the EHR.

In the DEP workflow, each dictated snippet will be processed through speech recognition, be made available for quality assurance, and be tracked for turnaround time. In addition to driving higher adoption of EHRs, the combination of structured text and voice input in “partial dictations” can save physicians time and reduce the overall cost of documentation by more than 50 percent.

To hear how Gundersen Lutheran Health System is successfully using EHR-integrated dictation with its Epic system, register to attend a live Webinar on June 30 at 2 p.m. EDT.

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Speakers:
Judy Weibel, Director, Clinical Data Services/Transcription Services, Gundersen Lutheran Health System
Dori Whittaker, Director, Product Management, MedQuist

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Hear how Gundersen Lutheran Health System is successfully using EHR-integrated dictation with its Epic system to promote physician adoption and achieve a 70 percent decrease in total minutes dictated on inpatient reports.