CE Credit: 1 PD
Medical transcriptionists believe their future is threatened by EHRs. This session presents an innovative approach to EHR documentation, revolving around a new and exciting profession that leverages the medical language expertise of MTs. Medical coordinators (MCs) listen to clinical encounters from a remote location (home) via a secure audio-transmission system, entering the appropriate data into the EHR. They are intensively trained in EHR data entry, combining relevant free text with codified input. Their documentation appears on monitors inside the exam room.
Physicians become more productive and increase their income, patients love that their doctors are paying attention to them rather than worrying about entering data into a computer, and MTs now actually determine how the encounter should be documented, rather than just transcribing from dictation, thereby migrating into a valuable and critical new role in the future of health care.
Speaker Bio
Joe is CEO of Valadoc, The Medical Coordinator Company. During his 40 years in the healthcare industry, Joe has been engaged in medical research, hospital administration, biotechnology, consulting, and marketing—with a heavy focus since the 1980s in dictation, transcription, speech recognition, and natural language technologies. Joe has published and presented extensively on a variety of topics, mostly related to clinical documentation. He is the holder of 3 U.S. patents, one of which was for Smartype. He is a founding member of the prestigious Davies EHR Excellence Award Program of HIMSS and has served on the board of directors of the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). Joe has been the Moderator of the Clinical Documentation Challenge at TEPR for 10 years. He has a BA in Biology from Brandeis, an MS in Biostatistics from Columbia, and an MS in Management from MIT.