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By Jennifer Bresnick for HealthIT Analytics A drastic reduction in patient safety errors can be attributed to the use of advanced EHR systems, a Pennsylvania study finds. The implementation and use of advanced EHR systems in Pennsylvania hospitals has produced a 27% decline in negative patient safety events, states an October study by researchers from…
Dolbey values your feedback. Your voice, as shared with KLAS, helps guide our efforts to continually improve the Speech Recognition and Computer-Assisted Coding technology we provide. For this reason, we strongly encourage you to continue contributing to as well as leveraging the analysis provided by KLAS. To make it easier for you to do this,…
By Rajiv Leventhal for Healthcare Informatics Despite significant progress in electronic health record (EHR) adoption, the road is still paved with pitfalls for many providers, according to new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan.The survey was in conjunction with the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), and primarily targeted CIOs working in mid-to-large…
By Katie Wike, contributing writer Health IT Outcomes A KLAS survey reveals 9 of 10 hospitals plan to expand the use of front-end speech deployment. Speech recognition technology has been called an “aggressively” growing market by HIMSS, and already has shown a growth rate of more than 20 percent per year, as Health IT Outcomes…
The only way forward now on EHRs is ahead, into uncharted territory By Mark Hagland for Healthcare Informatics As we reported here on June 2, the Premier healthcare alliance on that date released the results of a new survey that found both that “Nearly half (49 percent) of c-suite healthcare executives plan to make their…
By Dave Baumgardner, Director of Information Management, Union Hospital, for Health Management Technology Speech technology improves productivity and reduces costs for community hospital. Union Hospital’s investments in digital dictation and transcription over the years have not only improved its documentation productivity and reduced costs, but have also helped prepare our hospital for the upcoming ICD-10…
By Kaveh Safavi, M.D., J.D. for InformationWeek-HealthCare Healthcare organizations have at least four options for dealing with the delayed implementation of new diagnostic codes. Many of the complexities of medicine are distilled down to a vocabulary of diagnostic codes, called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which are used by doctors, insurers, and hospitals. Today’s…
By Katie Wike for Health IT Outcomes Another in a long list of studies shows most doctors are dissatisfied with their EHR, but they don’t want to return to paper records either According to a RAND survey, 80 percent of doctors say they are dissatisfied with EHRs. No surprise really, since in November a survey…
By Matt Robinson for Bloomberg.com MModal Inc. skipped a scheduled bond interest payment yesterday, taking advantage of a 30-day grace period as the provider of medical transcription services negotiates with creditors to cut the company’s debt load. “At this time no determination has been made by MModal to not pay such scheduled interest payment” within…
Dolbey and Company, Inc., which began as a partner and dealer for Thomas A. Edison’s dictation machine company, proudly announces the anniversary of its 100th year in business. In 1914, John Dolbey and Thomas A. Edison shook hands on a dictation machine franchise, and ever since, Dolbey has been a leader in dictation and document…