How speech recognition helps ambulatory clinicians focus on what matters most
To understand the challenges facing ambulatory practices, we interviewed clinicians from independent practices around the country. In the second article in our series exploring their answers, we highlight how Dragon Medical One gives clinicians more time and bandwidth to connect with their patients, building trust and helping them reach better health outcomes.
The relationship between a patient and their clinician is so important for care quality and patient wellbeing. When there’s a good rapport, patients are inclined to share their symptoms and concerns in more detail, and trust that their clinician is working with them toward the best possible health outcome.
But how do you maintain this relationship in a busy, modern clinical environment, where there’s such a focus on efficiency and so many different things competing for a clinician’s attention? Between mounting clinical documentation requirements, increasingly complex administrative systems, and delivering the actual care, it’s easy to let the human connection with patients slip.
We recently conducted in-depth interviews with clinicians from independent practices nationwide to understand their major challenges and what clinicians need to overcome them. One of the top themes discussed was how to prioritize the patient in every interaction without sacrificing detail and accuracy in documentation.
Can you balance attentive patient care with charting demands?
Over half of the clinicians we spoke to see clinical documentation as an issue, with many of them citing the impact on the patient as a key concern. Almost half (46%) say it limits the amount of time they spend with a patient, and 42% say it limits the quality of the time they spend with the patient.
About Nuance® Dragon® Medical One
Dragon Medical One is a cloud based HITRUST certified speech recognition solution, integrated with MicroMD EMR, that provides a consistent and personalized clinical documentation experience across solutions, platforms, and devices regardless of physical location.
