Friday, May 25, 2012

Dragon

Yesterday at work, I had a request for the Dragon. Dragon is a voice activated software that allows physicians to dictate directly into the electronic note. We had a trial of Dragon at our 2nd campus ER site. The trial went well but we had a couple of bumps since those physicians had previously just dictated and were not familiar with using the electronic note at all. They had to learn the electronic note and the Dragon software. The reason we started with that area was because they had the highest transcription cost within both hospitals. Physicians at our primary site are barking at the door to get the Dragon software. We recently had a meeting where we are debating over MModal or Dragon for a voice activation service. In the meantime, physicians who want to use this have to purchase it on their own, which is about 1300 dollars. - I learned that money plays a big role in decisions. The voice activation systems provide a compromise where physicians can still dictate and hospitals save on transcription costs. Also there is better accuracy with the physician being able to correct live in dictation. This is also supposed to be a time saver- one of the big obstacles in using EMR.
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  1. Nano TechJune 9, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    Hi Nina. I too am interested in healthcare. I just have a quick question, what is the electronic note? How is this different from inputting the/transcribing the report yourself? Sounds like you have had some very interesting times with the EMR. What has been the biggest challenge? What is the greatest reward that you have seem with the transition to EMR?

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  2. ninaJune 14, 2012 at 10:55 PM

    The electronic note is a template for physicians to write their note on the patient. With each visit, the physician documents what occurred and what the plan is for that patient. In the old days we wrote it on paper. Now we have the electronic note where we type it into the computer, use templates so we can click instead of writing whole sentences and pull in information from the patient's chart like labs into the note for documentation.

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