Medical Transcription and EMR - Digitizing Patient Health Record to Provide Health-Care Solutions

The present day health-care industry facessoftware make it easy to digitize the patient
enormous challenges to satisfactorily deliverhealth information, in a safe and secure way. The
quality health solutions to the masses in a costdigital data is then converted into suitable
effective manner. The challenge gets stiffer,microwave signals by WIMAX (World Wide
when remote communities are involved.Interoperability for Microwave Access) and
To maximize the reach of medical personnel, it istransmitted over large distances. All the security
important to merge wireless technology withfeatures are incorporated in the network to
medical documentation technologies like EMR andensure that the bi-directional flow of the patient
medical transcription. The objective is to deliverhealth data is as per HIPAA norms.
health-care solutions through Telemedicine to nearThe wireless technology like the WIMAX, provides
or distant communities, by creating a seamlessthe last mile connectivity and allows for easy
health-care web.integration of the remote communities with urban
A proper medical documentation system makes itcenters, where majority of hospitals are located.
easy for the physician to maintain a completeThrough WIMAX, it is possible to simultaneously
record of the patient. Medical documentationreceive and send, audio and video signals, an
system like EMR or electronic medical recordessential requirement of Tele-monitoring. The ECG
allows the physician to quickly enter the patientand EEG of the distant patient can be easily
health information into relevant pre-structuredmonitored by a doctor in the hospital, situated
templates through point-and-click mechanism. As athousands of miles away. In case of emergencies
result, during medical diagnosis of patient, thelike accidents in remote areas, where the patient
physician directly enters the medical observationsrequires prompt medical attention, the paramedics
into computer to create an electronic record. Thiscan easily interact with hospitals. They can send
saves time and money as no additional staff andmedical observations, reports, videos and other
storage area is needed for maintaining bulky filerecords, online to hospitals and simultaneously
cabinets.receive instructions from doctors, on how to
In medical transcription, the diagnostic report oftreat patients. This all can be easily done as the
patient is dictated into the voice recorder and thepatient is being rushed to the nearest hospital.
voice file is sent to the transcriptionist. The voiceThus WIMAX provides mobility to health-care
file is converted into electronic text and sent backdelivery.
to physician. This is a manual process and takesThis type of health-care setup reduces patient
time. The speech recognition softwarevisits to the hospitals or clinics, unless in case of
overcomes this drawback by directly convertingan emergency or when it becomes necessary for
dictation or spoken words into electronic file,patient. The stored health information can be
which is then edited by the transcriptionist. Thiseasily updated regularly by doctor after each
setup increases the transcription speed and atonline interaction with the patient, during the
same time ensures high degree of accuracy.course of the treatment.
EMR, medical transcription and speech recognition