The EMDAT Expressway™ has several
advantages over a standard paper-based-system and also
several advantages over other service providers.
IMproved Workflow
The Expressway™ enables your medical facility to create
its own customized workflow—whether you want to
utilize electronic signatures, automated referral routing
or just print your transcripts for manual clinician authentication.
The Expressway™ keeps patient schedules and referring
clinicians’ addresses accessible on-line, via the
internet, so that information within the transcript is
accurate and complete. No more researching a transcript
after it has been returned to the medical facility for
an address or the birth date of the patient. This
information is securely kept on-line and is used by the
transcriptionists when transcribing a dictation.
The Expressway™ provides many templated reports that enable
you to manage and monitor the transcription process. From
detailed billing reports that show the line count and cost
of each transcription, to a report that compares a day’s
appointment schedule to the dictations transcribed, revealing
scheduled appointments without a transcription.
Time Savings
The Expressway's™ automated workflow
will help to reduce your dictation-to-chart-placement
turnaround time because transcripts are accessible to
authorized staff immediately upon completion.
The Expressway™ will decrease Accounts Receivable days
as well, providing Billing personnel with authorized
access to transcripts to reduce the time for coding,
thereby reducing the time to final bill.
Today, many clinicians dictate referral letters in addition
to notes. These referral letters are little more
than an introduction and a summary of the clinician’s
findings. Clinicians can choose to use The Expressway™ to automatically generate a cover letter that includes
the findings from the note, thereby eliminating referrals
letters. Not only does this save clinicians time
but, since these cover letters are free, cost is drastically
reduced.
Transcription Company Flexibility
With the Expressway™ it is so easy to switch or
use multiple vendors for transcription—it’s
revolutionary. When medical facilities switch transcription
companies—usually once every year and a half—they
are left at the mercy of that vendor.
Not any more! The Expressway™ lets you change
transcription companies without interrupting clinician
or staff workflow. You control how a line is counted
and which vendor or vendors do your transcription. All
templates and information created on the Expressway™ are owned by you, therefore dictations can be routed
to a new transcription company with the click of the
mouse and all templates are retained.
