EMR interfacing costs too high? Don't panic.
As a service to the medical facilities, Emdat, with very few exceptions, provides interfacing at no charge. That is not always the case for EMR companies. At times, the costs charged for the EMR side of the interface can be prohibitive to moving forward. This is frustrating not only to transcription companies trying to win the business by providing better service, but also to the medical facilities which would realize more value with their EMR. HL7 is the most common interface, but generally requires involvement for either the scheduling/demographic interface or textual/discrete interface back into the EMR.
If costs are prohibitive or cooperation is not forthcoming by the EMR software provider, we do have some options which are pretty straightforward and will save on cost. Don't panic - you can still interface to the scheduler to improve accuracy for the transcriptionist, and Emdat will store all transcriptions on our servers for as long as you are a client. Additionally we can bring past historical transcriptions over to the EMR if/when you so desire and are ready.
We continue to strive to provide additional features such as interfacing at little or no costs because or philosophy has always been to treat clients the way you want to be treated. Generally speaking this feature is of big value. If you are moving forward with EMR software in the near future, I would ask them about their ability, willingness and costs to interface with their transcription platform provider.
