EHR & Online Medical Transcription Service Blog

April 23, 2010

The Evolution of Medical Transcription

Health care information technology systems like EHRs and medical transcription are wonderful and terrifying, all at the same time. Wonderful because it’s helping providers spend more quality time with patients. It’s also speeding revenue cycles, streamlining workflow, reducing coding errors and eventually, will make patients’ records more complete, and better yet, searchable.

It’s terrifying because it’s charting new and unknown territory for many practices.

But here’s the great news: you don’t have to worry about the technology. At MxSecure, that’s our job. You can trust us to tell you what you need to know, and why you need to know about it, in plain English, so you can make informed decisions about medical transcription services and our EHR products.

For instance, the new CCD/CCR technologies are changing the way medical transcriptions are provided. But why? What does it mean? What does it do? How will it affect my practice? All great questions.

Quite simply, medical transcriptions and how patient information is stored and shared is evolving. CCD is the Continuity of Care document, and CCR is the Continuity of Care record. Both are ways of passing patient information between providers, and they support the “Meaningful Use” requirement for EHR under the terms of the 2009 HiTECH Act.

For instance, when a patient has a hospital stay, all of the information about that stay must then be passed to their Primary Care Physician. The new technology will eventually put an end to physicians constantly having to request patient records from multiple sources, and help close knowledge gaps in a patient’s health history. Which in turn, allows physicians to make better, more informed clinical care decisions.

So how will this affect your practice? Adopting MxSecure as your provider of choice for medical transcription and/or EHR services guarantees that your transcriptions will support the CCD and CCR formats and meet requirements for “Meaningful Use.”And that puts stimulus dollars in your pocket. And better patient care at your fingertips.

So c’mon aboard. Get in on the medical transcription technology evolution revolution! We’ll take care of all the technology stuff so you can focus on your patients. And that’s pretty wonderful, all around.