- MxSecure: Medical Transcription Services, Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Speech Recognition
On May 13, 2010 MxSecure “officially” launched our new web-based, physician-friendly EMR software, MxChart. A feat we are proud of!
Medical Transcription Services have come a long way from the early days of typewriters and carbon copies, but the way they are billed is often a mystery. So how do you know if you’re getting the best deal? Clearly, accuracy is critical. But with myriad ways medical transcription services companies compute their charges, it’s important to understand HOW to get an “apples to apples” comparison between potential service providers.
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.
Doctors all over the country have much more in common than their medical degrees. More than 80% share the same preference for methods of patient documentation and medical transcription: dictation. Why dictation? Because it’s fast, it’s affordable and it’s familiar.
So what is the best solution for EHR (Electronic Health Records)? Sure, there are lots of things to consider, but for providers, all the legislation and buzz about issues is really making things more complicated than they need to be. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of it all: which is patient documentation and information sharing…you have the following options to choose from:
With no annoying screech of the microphone, welcome to the new MxSecure blog, and the launch of our new website. I’m Colin Christie, President and CEO of MxSecure. My marketing people insisted that I do the honors, so this blog post will have to serve as the traditional “smash a bottle of champagne” christening. Sometimes the old ways of doing things hold value, even if it’s only to raise a smile.