Over the last 30 years, medical documentation solutions have had many advancements and options. Typically, the decision comes down to your medical provider and their workflow.
As we work with different medical facilities across the United States, we see that one of the most important issues is doctor and nurse burnout. Learn how our Virtual M.D. Scribes stand out from regular medical scribes and how they can optimize your healthcare practice!
There are several ways to calculate the cost of a medical scribe. First, how will the scribe learn to scribe for your organization? Most scribes learn to scribe by looking over the shoulder of your staff for a month or more. In most cases, this shadowing takes 30-60 days before they can truly begin to learn to document themselves.
As you may have guessed not all medical scribes are created equal, so let’s distinguish the differences in the marketplace today. The first thing that most people do not always realize is when they talk medical scribe it is very loose term. Most Medical Scribes have no to very little medical experience, from days to a couple weeks.
In the recent KLAS report, the author discussed how healthcare organizations are leveraging virtual medical scribes to improve clinician satisfaction. The KLAS report described virtual medical scribes as remote human scribes who communicate with cognition via laptop, smartphone, or tablet. The virtual medical scribe’s duties include: updating charges, clarifying information, entering clinical notes, and making suggestions to physicians.
In a recent article by JAMA, the most significant source of dissatisfaction was physician’s feeling burnt-out by the amount of documentation they have to manually enter in the electronic health record. Doctors and nurses increasingly feel like they are data entry clerks. Entering or confirming average values for every patient is tiring and time-consuming. This takes the doctor away from why they became a doctor in the first place, patient care.
On an average day, a physician spends two or more hours a day documenting in their EMR, and often into the evening, affecting their quality of life and creating physician burnout. These physicians and nurses are looking for some relief from the burden of documentation.
Public safety agencies across the U.S. should have received the warning – you’re at risk of a cyberattack.
FirstWatch – a company that monitors public safety systems for attacks and unusual activities - sent out an email alert on January 29, 2022 that cyberattacks against 911 centers, local governments and medical facilities are ongoing and on the rise.
Telemedicine has become standard practice for many providers since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for others implementing a telehealth program has been a challenge.
Often smaller providers or those located in rural areas struggle to find the money to pay for a new telehealth program. They are likely unaware that millions of dollars are available as grants and other special funding programs.
When the COVID 19 pandemic hit the U.S. and healthcare providers turned to telemedicine as a way to continue seeing their patients, the government acted to lift restrictions that limited access to telehealth. A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives is now hoping to make access permanent.
We're excited to announce that Voice Products has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for Telehealth/Telemedicine with Premier, Inc. Effective November 3rd, 2021, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Voice Products’ telehealth platform, Let’s Talk Telemedicine, as well as medical carts, kiosks, and medical equipment.
“We’re thrilled to be leading the way in telehealth and telemedicine solutions for Premier members,” said Dean J. Tullis, President, and CEO of Voice Products. “Our platform is one of the most sophisticated available but also among the easiest to use. We built it to be reliable and secure with features that replicate an in-person visit.”
Let’s Talk Telemedicine is suitable for Premier’s new Telehealth/Telemedicine category because it’s a robust solution that goes beyond simple video conferencing.
Let’s Talk Telemedicine is an easy-to-use, yet secure, HIPAA-compliant platform with customizable features that work with a healthcare provider’s workflow. The solution integrates with existing systems such as EHRs and patient portals. It offers the unique opportunity to connect with medical carts, kiosks, and devices so doctors can read a patient’s vitals in real time, making a telemedicine visit no different than an office visit.
Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,400 U.S. hospitals and 225,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost.
Voice Products also holds a group purchasing agreement with Premier for Call Center Services. It provides call center telephone recording, screen recording, PCI compliance, workforce management, ACD, IVR, and more. The contract number is PP-SV-244.