The healthcare industry is facing a huge transformation thanks to the gradual adoption of digital services. While healthcare is still notoriously behind other industries when it comes to utilizing digital systems, the Covid pandemic propelled the importance of technology in the healthcare sector to the forefront.
Embracing the digital revolution in healthcare is rapidly becoming a necessity. Patients are unlikely to willingly return to longer wait times or complete unnecessary amounts of paperwork when they’ve experienced digital services that can make the process much faster. As a result, many hospitals and clinics are currently in the active process of digitally streamlining their workflows.
The ultimate benefit of digitization is that the quality of patient care is vastly improved. And most patients appear ready to embrace digital change. A recent survey found that 93% of patients want to use digital tools to interact with their care providers and many would be willing to use new technology to reduce in-person visits.
Digitally streamlining workflows should be on the top of every medical organization’s agenda for the coming year. In this blog, let’s focus on streamlining data entry workflows.
By outsourcing time-consuming data entry to a software solutions provider, the healthcare center’s internal resources can be used for core business processes. Outsourcing can reduce overhead such as training data entry personnel and hiring or investing in expensive data entry software.
Data innovation has increased the usage of electronic medical records (EMR). But it needs efficient and accurate data to get the most out of it. All patient information must be collected and recorded: chart information, medical and surgical history, insurance claims, account information, diagnoses, doctor’s notes, X-ray data, and MRI scans. In terms of the backend, leveraging automation can lead to improved interoperability between electronic health records (EHR) can vastly streamline a patient’s experience. While old medical databases typically struggled to interact with other systems, new developments in cloud technology can give patients access to personal data from the comfort of their own homes.
It is one of the reasons healthcare providers of all sizes and specialties have implemented automation solutions to make their medical data entry workflows more efficient and much more accurate. Recruiting and maintaining staff for the sole purpose of data entry does not seem to be an effective way to deal with the flow of information.
Here at Extract, we provide solutions to assist in automating document and data workflows that are rich in important medical data needed to effectively diagnose and treat patients. Extract automates the abstraction of large patient records and delivers to the nurse or the physician an index of document types and critical data so that clinical staff can immediately find the information needed.
If you’re interested in seeing how our software can deliver you discrete results and save your clinicians time, please reach out and we’d be happy to have an introductory call or show you a demonstration of our software.
About the Author: Taylor Genter
Taylor is the Marketing Manager at Extract with experience in data analytics, graphic design, and both digital and social media marketing. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater. Taylor enjoys analyzing people’s behaviors and attitudes to find out what motivates them, and then curating better ways to communicate with them.