Got any advice?
We currently run a daily batch script in client server that
downloads appointments from our LSS database and then creates a pov short
registration in our Meditech system. We do this so that our physicians in
our offices can use the hospital's Dictaphone system for dictation and
transcriptionists can transcribe and attach the report to the reg account
number so that it appears in EMR. And it works great!
Our Medical Records Department has implemented Dictaphone's EWS
system for hospital docs. This is a voice recognition dictating system that
allows the doc to dictate, edit and esign immediately. This is apparently
working well within the hospital setting because these patients are
registered prior to being seen so the account number always exists at the
point of dictation and it can flow directly to EMR. If for some reason the
account number does not exist at the time of the dictation, then the note
becomes a "temp" report and has to be manually merged which really defeats
the purpose. But that rarely happens and MR feels that it works great, too!
Medical records would now like to implement this EWS system in our
physician offices which will require a real-time transfer of appointment
data from LSS to create a registration in Meditech to attach the dictation
to. Our current daily batch process would cause the notes to become dreaded
"temp" reports so it is not a solution.
The issues I see for trying to do a real-time script are rather
extensive. So, does it make sense to attempt to create a BWS solution for
this or see if LSS and MT can create a background interface to do the job?
Is anyone out there using BWS for any similar scenarios that are close to
'real-time'?
Thanks.
Ben Green
Augusta Medical Center
(540)-332-5548
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