Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Medical INK Corporation announces the implementation of our transcription platform's Discrete Accurate Reportable Transcription system (DaRT)!

What is DaRT? The DaRT system offers medical facilities, clinics and private physician offices an EMR/EHR implementation approach that minimizes operational change and completely eliminates physician productivity loss while complying with Meaningful Use Guidelines!

Automatically populate your EMR using Dictation. DaRT tags transcription content (i.e.: Chief complaint, History of Present Illness, Family History, Social History, Physical Examination, Assessment, Treatment) and discretely populates your EMR/EHR automatically, as if the clinician had entered it into the system themselves. With DaRT, hospital, clinics and private physician offices can embrace the future of health care without requiring a change in clinician behaviour. Clinicians can spend their valuable time doing what they do best - practicing medicine.

Comply with "Meaningful Use" Guidelines. Many medical facilities are adopting Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems in an effort to comply with President Obama's HITECH Act and "Meaningful Use" guidelines. These systems claim to eliminate or at least reduce the cost of patient documentation by requiring physicians to abandon dictation and use templates to record patient encounters. But do they?

Studies show that it takes a physician an average of 4.5 minutes per patient to document a visit using templates in an EMR system. By contract, dictation takes only 1.5 minutes per patient. That's a difference of three minutes per patient. If a physician sees an average of 20 patient per day, that translates into 60 minutes a day! The result? Doctors will either see fewer patients, or work longer hours. Transcription costs may be lower, but so is productivity, resulting in thousands of dollars in lost revenue. In addition, doesn't high quality patient care mean physicians who focus on their patients instead of their computer screen?

By choosing Medical INK as your dictation provider, physicians can continue to dictate while clinics fully utilize an EMR system -- and the EMR is automatically populated with data that would otherwise have been entered via templates. Meaningful use compliance is achieved, at a cost significantly less than traditional transcription serivces.


DaRT sounds great - but what will it cost me? The DaRT system comes to you with no cost. There are no additional fees, line rate increases or hidden costs to implement the DaRT system.


How do I dictate? Do I need to do or have anything "special"? You do not need to change how you dictate - whether it be by phone, digital recorder, iPhone or iPad, it stays the same. Based on your current dictation, we will help you set up the appropriate templates for your EMR. Our techs will work hand-in-hand with your EMR provider to provide a smooth transition, usually in ten days.


What other EMR solutions do you offer besides DaRT? Medical INK interfaces with any RIS, HIS, EMR or clinical repository. Patient and appointment information is tagged and then exported into electronic health record systems. Physicians can continue to dictate while taking full advantage of an implemented EMR with no additional fee. If a medical facility has an EMR system in place, Medical INK can automatically populate all transcription into the clinical repository. If an EMR system is in your future, Medical INK will maintain and store all the history needed to populate the future EMR when it becomes a reality.


CALL US TODAY! 1-800-778-6643


We are always happy to discuss the DaRT system or any other EMR implementations. Let us help you make the decision as to what choice is right for you!

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