My Wishes in 2012

May you & yours have.... 

12 months of happiness

52 weeks of fun

365 days of success

8,766 hours of good health

525,948 minutes of good luck

31,556,926 seconds of joy

New Year's wishes from the Just My Type Transcription family!

Merry Christmas

Faith makes all things possible, 

Hope makes all things work, 

Love makes all things beautiful,

May you have all three for Christmas and always! 

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EMR Implementation and Revenue Drop-off

What Physicians and Medical Facilities Need to Know

Studies show, the more a facility decreases their transcription costs with an EMR, the more their revenue is reduced. EMR vendors claim the revenue will come back after 6 or 8 months. In these tough economical times, can your office, clinic, hospital afford to lose thousands in revenue with the "assumption" it will return at some point?

How we know revenue will decrease:


Right now, EMR documentation by a physician takes an average of 4.5 minutes PER patient versus only 1.5 minutes for dictation of the encounter. If a physician sees 20 patients per day, that's at least 60 minutes of lost time (3 x 20) 60 minutes lost time. 

If we calculate this out that translates to

• 300 minutes a week
• 1200 minutes per month
• 9600 minutes for 8 months

For offices that don't see a boatload of patients, it works. There is time in between appointments for EMR documentation by a physician.


Now, let's take a different look. Let's figure out how many patients' appointments physicians are giving up to "eliminate transcription" by documenting patient encounters themselves via an EMR (based on a 15-minute visit):

Based on the above calculations, physicians are losing:

• 20 appointments per day
• 80 appointments per month
• 640 appointments for 8 months

What is losing 640 appointments going to cost your facility?  



What's the solution? So glad you asked.

1. Doctors will either see less patients (reduced revenue) 
2. OR work longer hours (as if they don't work enough hours)

What Just My Type Transcription wants to see happen:

Physicians are more expensive than transcriptionists. So, we say see patients instead, and as technology evolves, transcription costs will reduce. This way, revenue will not drop off while during EMR/EHR implementation.


Just My Type Transcription offers our clients many different ways to cut transcription costs while continuing to dictate as this is the quickest and most accurate means to documenting patient encounters.


Contact us us today for a free, no-obligation demo to see how your facility can save on transcription while implementing an EMR.

MT Prayer

This is an MT prayer that was sent to me by a friend. Medical transcriptionists take their job quite seriously!

Dear Lord,

Bless the work of my hands and may it glorify You.

In all that I do, help me to remember that a patient's life may depend on the quality of my work. Keep me alert to discrepancies and inconsistencies, and help me to concentrate.

Give me compassion, Lord, and never let me see the report I'm typing as a case or a number.

But let me remember the patient - a living human being who may be experiencing pain, fear, and uncertainty. May the patient feel Your healing touch and be comforted by Your Spirit instead.

Bless the doctor, as well, and may he be filled with Your Wisdom and Your Compassion as he cares for his patients. 

And let me remember tolerance for the physician whose dictation slips may be due to fatigue or some great concern of which I'm not aware. Let me remember that he is human, too, and deserves the same amount of patience I would like shown to me.

Finally, let me always remember that You are the Great Healer, the Source of all Comfort and Joy.

May I acknowledge You in all I do and reflect Your Love to all whom I meet.

Amen.

By Ellen Drake (considered public domain)

LOST DOG -- SONNY

- UPDATE - 
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Sonny has been found, thankfully. He spent the night curled up on someone's deck about three or so blocks from where he got out of his collar.  



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My post today involves a special lil guy. 

His name is Sonny. He's mostly German Shepard. He's just a few months old. He was last seen on Friday evening, October 21st, heading north of Schaumburg Road and Walnut Road. 

Take a look at his picture and please help us bring him home.

If you have any information at all, please contact me at nicole@justmytypetranscription.com

Thank you.