Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 FAQ: Buying from Genesis

May 7, 2014 by Leave a comment

Key Benefits of Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4:

  • Improve care efficiency. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 offers virtually instant response time, saving clinicians valuable minutes in their day – no more waiting for transcribed reports or needing to type into their EHR/ EMRs.
  • Reduce transcription and the cost of documentation. Using speech recognition technology, clinicians dictate, edit and sign medical records at the point of care, eliminating as much as $12,000 in annual transcription costs.
  • Spend more time with patients. Increased accuracy means fewer errors to correct, which lets clinicians spend more time with patients, improving both quality of care and patient satisfaction.
  • Improve documentation. Documentation with Dragon Medical speech recognition technology – as opposed to notes built by point-and-click EHR/ EMR templates alone – results in higher rates of reimbursement.
  • Secure patient information. Dragon Medical Practice Edition supports HIPAA patient confidentiality guidelines.
  • Improve physician satisfaction. With Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4, physicians look forward to practicing medicine – and getting home in time for dinner.
  • Increase reimbursement. A major study by a physician practice in the Northeast determined that using Dragon Medical with an EHR/ EMR increases per-physician reimbursement by $10,000 per year per physician.

Why buy from Genesis Technologies?

  • Training and Implementation. Genesis Technologies packages training and installation support with every Dragon Medical license we sell. We assist with setup and installation, and every license we sell is packaged with 2 hours of user training. Whether you are a single physician, or 20 physician practice – we have a training and implementation solution for you!
  • We offer you expertise. We have been selling, implementing, training and supporting customers on Dragon Medical speech recognition software for over 10 years. We have helped over 1500 practices across the U.S. and Canada save time and money and improve practice efficiencies by implementing Dragon Medical in their practices. Our team is incredibly knowledgeable, and is able to support Dragon with all EHRs.
  • Ongoing Technical Support. Genesis Technologies offers lifetime technical phone support for Dragon Medical. If you purchase Dragon Medical from us, simply contact us by phone from 8:30-5:00 CST for assistance.
  • Cost Effectiveness: As a Premier Partner, we offer you great prices on software, microphones and other accessories, and valuable training & support services. We also offer flexible payment options, including the ability to lease.
  • Accountability: As a small company located in Austin TX, we strive for total customer satisfaction and love referrals, so your positive experience is our main goal. Ask us about our 30-Day Money Back Guarantee!

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ICD-10: Everything You Know Is About To Change

March 11, 2014 by 1 Comment

 

Just a heads up….

October 1, 2014 will bring drastic changes to your practice with the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The increase in coding will jump from 16,000 to 68,000 alone! All “covered entities” – as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) – are required to adopt ICD-10 codes for use in all HIPAA transactions with dates of service on or after the October 1, 2014, compliance date.

To avoid disruptions in your patient care and reimbursement, you must be ready. A successful transition from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes will require significant planning. At minimum, your organization should consider the following:

  • Ensure top leadership understands the scope and significance of the ICD-10 transition
  • Assign responsibility and decision-making authority for managing the transition
  • Plan a comprehensive and realistic budget
  • Ensure involvement and commitment of all internal and external stakeholders, and
  • Adhere to a well-defined timeline.

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Federal EMR Mandate Overview

November 7, 2013 by Leave a comment

Dragon Medical Practice Edition can help you avoid penalties, and get you financial reimbursement for meeting the criteria for “meaningful use”. The article below details the transition toward EMR usage and what is expected to come within the next year or so….

Kyle Wayland

Executive Consultant for Genesis Technologies Inc., Eastern US & Canada

Federal EMR Electronic Medical Records Mandate 2014/2015 Deadline

There are various views regarding President Obama’s ability to ensure that all medical records in the United States are converted into the electronic format by 2014 but there is no denying the fact that an increased adoption of EMR or electronic medical records by physicians, healthcare organizations and their related business associates is now a gradually-progressing certainty.

A rather recent legislation further underlines the initiative for moving onto the electronic platform of storing patient medical records—called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or the ARRA. This legislation is aimed at creating more funding and a network of incentives that can be directly resourced towards healthcare professionals or physicians who are ready to adopt EMR and abide by the concept of “meaningful use” of Electronic Medical Records by 2014.

The year 2014 is also significant from the perspective that from 2015 onwards, penalties are likely to be levied on entities dealing with patient healthcare data unable to upgrade themselves to electronic record technologies. Legislations like the ARRA and the entire campaign promoting EMR is based on the principle that electronic records provide the combined benefit of securing patient information and cutting down healthcare costs—two irrefutable advantages.

It should be noted that the proposed penalty in 2015 is of 1% and this is likely to increase incrementally, up to 5% in the forthcoming years. Most of the penalties will be levied in the form of reduced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. To engage appropriate funding, all entities applying for the EMR healthcare funding should understand and prove “meaningful use” of patient medical records and the use of “certified EHR” technologies. This essentially means that the EMR vendor chosen by a healthcare provider/clinic or its business associates should comply with regulations that have been put forth in this niche, such as the standards set by the Security Rule of HIPPA.

The government is very serious in terms of ensuring that the conversion rate to EMR technologies is appreciable and that is why along with grants and federal funding, more college-level programs aimed at creating more Health Information Management professionals are likely to be introduced as 2014 draws near. This will ensure that the impending explosion in electronic records numbers is addressed with the availability of qualified professionals—further helping to reduce the overall costs for employing healthcare computer technologies and easing the entire process.

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Glen Tullman, C…

October 2, 2013 by Leave a comment

Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, believes the practice of medicine is about to change. “Your iPad, your voice, and your hands will be the new input devices for the EHR of the future,” according Tullman. He said in an interview at the HIMSS conferencethat we’re reaching the point where physicians will soon be able to talk to their computer, get immediate access to all the patient data they need, and even pull up the latest clinical trials. “That’s coming within 12 months. It’s doable today,” he said.

So the future of medicine is about to arrive. What exactly will it look like? It will include not just voice recognition software–which has already been mastered by companies like Nuance Dragon–but voice recognition combined with natural language processing. That marriage, as explained in a recent article by Fritsch for Advances, will not only convert a physician’s spoken words into text, but will generate meaningful, structured information that can populate allergy checkboxes in an EHR, for example, thereby speeding up the clinical documentation process.

Equally impressive is the ability of voice recognition/natural language processing to let a clinician’s speech activate a clinical documentation system, or a picture archive and communications system (PACS), or even put data into these systems with free form dictation. Think: “Go to allergies checklist,” or “create a new office visit, ” or “insert standard review of systems.”

But perhaps the most futuristic capability of such “collaborative intelligence” tools is their ability to keep doctors fully informed of relevant patient data already in the electronic records system.

A great article I came across this morning. Thought we’d share!

By Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek February 24, 2012

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