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Which of the following problems occur in your practice?
Documentation:
Medical reports
are not as complete and comprehensive as they should be
Have to stay
late or work weekends to complete medical records and correspondence
Patients:
Patients often
call back because they can't remember what you told them in the office
Patients call
to inquire about ICD-9-CM codes and CPT codes for their insurance company
Your staff
doesn't have the information necessary to answer the patient's questions
Transcription:
Delays in office
notes, physical exam reports, patient and referring doctor correspondence
Inaccurate
spelling and interpretation
Unreliable
equipment or lost dictation
Difficulty
finding and keeping good transcriptionists
Personnel expenses
Personnel problems
Hospital records:
Hospital occasionally
loses your operative reports - not once but many times
Hospital records
are late
Hospital insists
upon keeping records current because of their cash flow problems
Malpractice:
Documentation
is not complete enough to provide protection against legal challenge
Difficulty
providing patients with understandable reports in non-technical terms
that help you communicate and provide legal protection
Scheduling surgeries:
Trouble collecting
the necessary information to schedule surgeries
Valuable time
spent calling patients and insurance companies to communicate necessary
information
Inaccurate
coding for surgical procedures
If you have any of the problems mentioned above in your office, you could improve your practice by systematically and efficiently collecting and storing patient data regarding histories, exams, x-rays, surgeries and follow-ups. You could use this data to provide comprehensive personalized correspondence with patients and referring physicians, increase protection against malpractice, and accomplish research. Read on to find out how a data collection system could make all this possible without dictation.
Did you realize?
Most dictation
is repetitive.
The vast majority
of dictation for a topic can be organized in advance.
Medical records
effect your cash flow since operative reports must accompany many commercial
insurance statements.
In today's
health care environment you need more information and treatment documentation
to guard against malpractice litigation.
Using forms
results in more comprehensive and organized record keeping.
Well documented,
systematic notes and exams provide the data to support the appropriateness
of surgery and are excellent protection against legal challenge.
Proficient
data collection results in an increased number of scheduled surgeries.
Is there a way to solve these problems, eliminate the detrimental
effects they cause, and improve your practice?
Yes - with
Benevolent Dictator.
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