Author Archives: Julie Clements
How Open Notes can help in Mental Health Therapy
Each year, about 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (46.6 million) experiences mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Mental health transcription services help therapists to maintain electronic medical records to accurately reflect their patients’ clinical condition. Good record-keeping … Continue reading
Read MoreSix Key Tips for a Successful Doctor Appointment
This is a continuation to the blog “Is There a Right Time to Visit Your Doctor?” So, you have chosen a doctor and made an appointment. May be you have waited weeks or months for this appointment and so it’s … Continue reading
Read MoreCommon Emergency Room Errors and Ways to Avoid Them
Each day, thousands of patients seek care in emergency departments (EDs) across the country. Many hospitals outsource medical transcription to ensure accurate, fast and reliable documentation so that ER physicians can focus on care. Law requires hospitals to guarantee a certain … Continue reading
Read MoreElectronic Consultations Expedite Care in Allergy and Immunology, finds Study
The effective use of electronic health records (EHRs) can improve the quality of health care and patient safety. Supported by medical transcription companies, providers leverage EHRs to maintain better documentation and file organization. EHRs also help patients with adherence to … Continue reading
Read MoreElectronic Medical Records Assisting U.S. Doctors to Fight Measles Outbreak
A highly contagious viral disease, measles can cause blindness, deafness, brain damage or even death. Though this virus was declared eliminated in the U.S. by 2000, its outbreaks have reappeared. According to the reports from CDC – from January 1 … Continue reading
Read More6 Dictation Software Programs Physicians Can Use
Medical documentation is very important when it comes to patient care because it includes all healthcare details of the patient such as patient history, test results, diagnoses, procedures, providers and so on. It provides a complete picture of all outcomes … Continue reading
Read MoreDo Electronic Health Records Pose Risk of Wrong Patient Orders?
Transcribing patient orders is one of the many documentation tasks that medical transcription companies help physicians with. Today, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) allows providers to transmit orders quickly via the electronic health record (EHR). While EHRs are designed to optimize … Continue reading
Read MoreNational Nurses Week 2019 Observed from May 6 – 12
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” Dag Hammarskjold, a Swedish Economist and Diplomat National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6 through May 12, the birthday of … Continue reading
Read MoreStrategies to Retain Nurses in the Workplace
Nurses make up the largest proportion of healthcare workers in the US. Nurses are involved in almost all aspects of care, including monitoring and assessing patients, bedside and medication management, assistance with surgeries, data collection/reporting, etc. In fact, a large … Continue reading
Read MoreKey Causes of Medical Diagnostic Errors
Table of ContentsWhy Diagnostic Errors OccurMany factors can cause diagnostic errors:Preventing Diagnostic ErrorsOutsourcing Medical Transcription Can Help Diagnostic errors have emerged as a pressing public health problem. Studies report that thousands of patients die or are permanently disabled every year due … Continue reading
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