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“ReDoc has been a huge success for Beloit Memorial Hospital. ReDoc enables us to provide more professional reports to our customers and the ability to capture appropriate charges for the work the therapists perform." Laurie Endres, PT, Clinical Director: Beloit Memorial Hospital
Does transitioning to an EMR save time?
If the question is limited to the amount of time spent documenting by the therapist during a given day, the truthful answer is ‘it depends’. Generally speaking, there is a decrease in efficiency during the early stages of the transition, and even once all staff members are used to being on an EMR, initial evaluations will often take as long or even slightly longer than on paper. The payoff, however, is that a Plan of Care doesn’t have to be created separately, and appropriate data flows forward to daily treatment notes, re-evaluations, and discharge summaries. The organization's chosen best practices for documenting given clinical scenarios can drive the depth (and time necessary) for documentation. Many organizations find that the time factor for clinicians ends up being roughly neutral, but there are great gains made in the comprehensiveness of the documentation. Further, since ReDoc facilitates point of care documentation, therapists can stay current on their documentation during the day and leave work – with documentation complete – shortly after their last patient does. This means the documentation is more complete since it’s done immediately, and charges get billed quicker, reducing the interval between care provided and remittance.
If support staff (such as medical records or billing data entry) are considered, EMR’s almost always save significant time. If you stop to consider how much effort is spent locating patient charts – are they in the medical records storage area? On someone’s desk? In someone’s briefcase? In ReDoc, every patient’s medical record is both much more secure and much more accessible. Since the information necessary to post a claim becomes a bi-product of the documentation process, there is no need to have a superbill, and charges can be posted automatically to the client’s billing system. This eliminates the need for a billing person to enter any data, which saves time and also eliminates human error in interpretation and data entry.
If support staff (such as medical records or billing data entry) are considered, EMR’s almost always save significant time. If you stop to consider how much effort is spent locating patient charts – are they in the medical records storage area? On someone’s desk? In someone’s briefcase? In ReDoc, every patient’s medical record is both much more secure and much more accessible. Since the information necessary to post a claim becomes a bi-product of the documentation process, there is no need to have a superbill, and charges can be posted automatically to the client’s billing system. This eliminates the need for a billing person to enter any data, which saves time and also eliminates human error in interpretation and data entry.