Dragon Medical Practice Edition Solves Healthcare Challenges

EHRs offer the potential to dramatically improve the cost and quality of healthcare. Despite this potential, EHR software is used by only 20% of clinicians in the U.S. today. In order to understand the potential benefits of Dragon Medical, it is important to articulate the factors that are driving U.S. healthcare toward EHR adoption, as well as the factors that are inhibiting EHR adoption.

Incentive payments to physicians have dramatically accelerated EHR software purchasing and implementation. Passed in 2009, he Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) will provide physicians up to $64,000 each “for showing hat they are meaningfully using health information technology”, by purchasing and using CCHIT certified (www.cchit.org) EHRs. According to the 2010 CapSite Ambulatory EHR and PM Study, 42% of all physician practices indicated they had purchased an EHR in previous two years – up to 37% a year earlier.

Physicians must also purchase EHRs in order to report to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a number of Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) as well as maintain Problem Lists and Medication Lists. Clearly, EHR templates are required to capture these elements of the patient encounter to meet CMS guidelines.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition is the first solution from Nuance Healthcare designed for use not only by doctors but also nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, and other care providers. For practices with less than 25 physicians, Dragon Medical Practice Edition is the only real-time speech recognition solution which fits busy clinicians' needs.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition introduces a faster, more efficient way for medical professionals to create medical records, medical correspondence, or email messages. Dragon Medical Practice Edition introduces a new, faster speech recognition engine that is 15% more accurate than Dragon Medical 10.

This solution turns voice into text three times faster than most people can type, with up to 99% accuracy, using any Windows-base EHR system. Dragon medical Practice Edition includes vocabularies covering nearly 60 medical specialties.

Here are just a few reason why Dragon Medical Practice Edition is for you:

• Improves the quality, efficiency, and profitability of the care you provide.
• Raises clinician satisfaction. Physicians who use Dragon medical report that it makes the practice of medicine more enjoyable and that they can get home in time for dinner – no more late nights and weekends catching up on dictating/typing and signing patient charts.
• Accelerates EHR Adoption. Clinicians can dictate the “medical decision-making” - History of Present Illness, Review of Symptoms, Assessment and Plan – while within the EHR.
• Helps you dictate notes in your own words – creating robust, meaningful notes that truly capture the patient encounter – rather than the “cookie-cutter” notes that are often provided by many EHR templates.

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