Category: MDS of Kansas

MDS SCRIBE PROGRAM APPROVED BY ACCIM

MDS proudly announces approval from the American College of Clinical Information Managers, ACCIM, for our Medical Scribe (CIM) accelerated programs!  ACCIM is the only governing body that has set a certification process.   Our programs have been submitted to Kansas Board of Regents and we anxiously await approval to add these 2 new programs to our current MLS/MT.    The time is right … the outlook is good!

Medical Scribe Study Finds Scribe Use May Extend Physician Careers 85%

“With respect to productivity (agree or strongly agree), 64.2% felt that they had higher relative value units and 79.4% were able to treat more patients per hour with scribe utilization. The majority of respondents (74.8%) felt that scribes were very or extremely beneficial when transitioning to use of an EMR. Respondents who were previously using an EMR without scribes indicated that there was a large positive impact of scribe utilization on EMR experience with respect to relieving the stress of documentation (87.4%), being able to “focus on being a physician” (78.8%), quality of life (77.9%) and patient care (77.3%).”

EHR and Medical Scribes

Are you currently a Medical Transcriptionist or Medical Assistant looking for a new direction?  We have a solution – medical scribe.   A medical scribe is similar to a medical transcriptionist and a medical assistant rolled into one.

The merging of advanced technology, EHR, with continued emphasis on efficient and accurate health documentation has created a new career in the allied health profession.  While actually not entirely new, the need for clinical documentation specialists who offer services in real time for medical providers is becoming more prominent as healthcare providers seek ways to be more efficient and compliant with new regulations.

Health Information Managers, also known as “medical scribes” offer an efficiency that enhances patient care.  The physician or clinician is able to focus more of their time and energy on patient communication, diagnosis and treatment, than on administrative tasks such as dictating and ordering diagnostics.

The increased use of electronic medical records has made the health records system more complicated for many providers.  A clinical information manager, also called a “scribe”, is a medical language specialist who accompanies a physician into the exam room and inputs clinical information into a medical record database as instructed by the practitioner. They may also input ancillary orders and track results to assist the practitioner in the administrative duties of patient care. They provide an interface between a busy physician and the EMR software, which allows the physician to focus on direct patient care and diagnostic decision-making.

ONSITE, REAL-TIME, AT THE POINT OF CARE, HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTATION .. that is the role of a Medical Scribe (CIM).

Today’s the BIG DAY!

Today’s the BIG DAY! We hope you can stop by! 4pm-Ribbon Cutting; open house to follow until 7 pm. Stop by when you can!
Don’t forget about our big Ribbon-Cutting and Open House this Wednesday, August 29! Ribbon-cutting with Mayor Carl Brewer is at 4 pm and a casual open house to follow until 7 pm. Come see us when you can! 205 S. Hillside!

Speech Recognition is here…

If your office is entertaining SRT, let us help!

It is important to understand the difference between front-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and backend speech recognition. Front-end speech recognition generates text in real-time as you dictate, requiring full editing and finalization of the documents, oftentimes very time consuming for the physician and/or resulting in many errors. Front-end ASR should be coupled
with “a quality-focused and accountable [back end] solution powered by credentialed MTs.” Back-end speech recognition is a system that works behind the scenes with editing and proofing by credentialed documentation specialists, not observed or transparent to the dictator in the creation process. There are strong data supporting the effectiveness of the partnership between smart and accountable MTs (credentialed documentation specialists)
and busy clinicians. This particular article references errors in SRT when proper editing is not enforced. SPEECH RECOGNITION ERRORS. If you are going to use SRT, make sure you do not compromise the narrative history of the patients who have entrusted their care to you for so many years. Let us help. Who better, than those who have managed your dictation and medical record documentation for years?

AHDI Approves

After rigorous self-study of our medical transcriptionist/editor curriculum and educational program, MDS of Kansas submitted application in July 2011 for approval by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI).  Final complete approval was awarded on September 28, 2011.
In AHDI’s words:
The medical transcription program approval process was instituted by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) to encourage compliance with AHDI’s Model Curriculum for Medical Transcription, maintain sound educational programming, produce competent entry-level medical transcriptionists, and assure consistency and high-quality outcomes for medical transcription education.
Programs must comply with specific educational and institutional criteria as established by AHDI.  There is no formal accreditation process for medical transcription programs, but AHDI program approval is regarded by industry employers as an emerging benchmark for job-ready workforce candidates.

Medical Language Specialists are a vital link in the healthcare documentation industry.

They must be well educated in medical language, theory and practical skills as they provide a critical link in the transference of a clinician’s thoughts to the official patient health record.
Core areas of study for Medical Language Specialists are medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, human diseases, laboratory medicine, pharmacology, and medical science.

Knowledge gained in these areas prepare a specialist for three different career paths in our educational program:
  • Medical transcriptionist/editor
  • Coding/HIM technician
  • Clinical Information Managers/Medical Scribes

Medical transcriptionists,  HIM technicians and scribes must have an extensive base of medical knowledge, but must also be competent in English mechanics, technology, healthcare documentation, professional practice, pharmacology, HIPAA privacy/security issues, and medical ethics.

MDS of Kansas, LLC : certified reseller of Digitech

In July 2011, MDS of Kansas, LLC, became a certified reseller of Digitech products and services. This opportunity allowed MDS to expand its role in providing healthcare documentation solutions to clients it has served for over two decades.

Digitech Systems, Inc. enables businesses of any size to more effectively and securely manage, retrieve and store corporate information of any kind using either PaperVision Enterprise content management (ECM) software or the world’s most trusted SaaS ECM service, ImageSilo. By significantly reducing the cost, Digitech Systems has moved ECM from a luxury convenience to an essential element for every well-managed business.

A Winning Strategy

MDS of Kansas, a trusted source of medical transcription services for over two decades, is now poised to offer clients chart scanning and management solutions.