Why Use Emdat? Medical Facilities Benefits

Emdat can provide medical facilities with the very best solution for documenting patient encounters at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.  Almost every aspect of the application can be customized to meet a medical facility’s needs and fit their current work process.  Best of all, you, the Medical Facility control the entire process of dictation and transcription deciding the line type, turnaround time and qualified text to be used in order to save significantly on your overall transcription expenses.

Medical Facilities using the Emdat system enjoy:

• Reduced Transcription Costs.  On the back end, Emdat creates transcription templates and Qualified Text based on physician dictations.  These set and/or editable elements reduce the amount of typing required per transcription and reduce costs significantly.
• Control Costs and Reduce Financial Risks. No monetary investments, no capital expenditures, no software purchases, no maintenance costs, no contractual commitments are required. All while reducing your operational costs!
• Clinicians Continue to Dictate.  Emdat works with traditional dictation, allowing doctors to practice medicine and thoroughly document every patient encounter quickly and efficiently without a need to learn and work with computer software systems. Emdat's DaRT™ (Discrete Accurate Reportable Transcription) offers medical facilities an EMR/EHR implementation approach that minimizes operational change and completely eliminates physician productivity loss. Emdat’s DaRT tags transcription content (Eg. Chief Complaint, Medical History, Family History, etc.) and discretely populates your EMR/EHR automatically, as if the clinician had entered it themselves.
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Integration.  Emdat interfaces with any RIS, HIS, EMR or clinical repository — patient and appointment information is tagged and then exported into electronic health record systems.  Physicians can continue to dictate while taking full advantage of an implemented EMR with no additional fee.  If a medical facility has an EMR system in place, Emdat can automatically populate all transcriptions into the clinical repository.  If an EMR system is in your future, Emdat will maintain and store all the history needed to populate the future EMR when it becomes a reality.
• Speech Recognition.  Speech recognition capabilities provided by M*Modal can be used without incurring costs upfront.  Speech recognition can lower transcription costs by utilizing technology that produces "draft" transcriptions which are then reviewed by qualified editors.  This process can reduce transcription costs by as much as 35%.
• Streamlined Workflow / Increased Productivity.  Medical facilities map the workflow of their transcriptions, and routing occurs automatically with the completion of each step.  Any authorized user can view, edit, electronically sign, and automatically route transcriptions, online, 24/7/365. Transcriptions can be routed automatically via auto-fax or a referral folder within the system.  Alternatively, convenient features exist to help in the standard mailing of transcriptions — automatically printing the number of transcriptions required (based upon the number of copied clinicians on a report), automatically creating a #10 envelope for each copied clinician, automatically generating a standard cover letter.
• Security.  Whether transferring dictations or processing transcriptions, the Emdat suite of applications meets all HIPAA and HCFA regulations.  User access to system content can be allocated based on clinician, location, and work type.
• Technical Support/Software as a Service.  Emdat's implementation, maintenance, interface and support teams are at the Medical Facility's disposal at no cost. Because software upgrades are handled by Emdat, there is no risk for technological obsolescence.