How to Make Patient Charting More Efficient with Vozo EHR

EHR Documentation is often considered the most important aspect of healthcare operations. Because it is the one that plays a key role from the initial patient registration to final payment processing. So, it requires maximum accuracy and quality. 

However, most providers feel frustrated while working on EHR documentation. According to studies, providers used to spend around 1 to 2 hours daily outside the clinic hours to complete documentation.

Moreover, EHR Documentation often presents many challenges for providers, such as being time-consuming, causing burnout, and creating administrative burdens. 

Utilizing Vozo EHR’s Charting feature, providers can speed up the EHR documentation process and ensure maximum accuracy. Although, it also helps to easily tackle the challenges associated with the process.

In this blog post, you’ll learn the common challenges associated with EHR documentation for healthcare providers and how Vozo EHR helps to tackle them.

Challenges Associated with EHR Documentation for Healthcare Providers

There are a few common challenges associated with EHR documentation for healthcare providers.

1. Time-Intensive Charting

• Medical documentation is one of the crucial aspects of healthcare.
• From patient diagnosis to billing, medical documentation plays a vital role.
• However, it is time-consuming, and healthcare providers spend hours per week on medical documentation which involves manually typing patient data.
• According to stats, providers used to spend 35% of their time documenting patient data often leads to frustration.
• This will ultimately leave less time for them to direct patient care.

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2. Increased Administrative Burden

• EHR Documentation requires more accuracy and quality in patient data.
• Moreover, providers need to enter more detailed data manually in EHR.
• It is required to meet the requirements of payers and regulations.
• This type of growing administrative workload will become a burden for providers and reduce the time available for patient consultations.

3. Provider Burnout

• Physicians often feel stressed and burned out when spending so much time on EHR-related tasks.
• If providers spend too much time on EHR-related tasks means limiting the time spent on patients.
• This will negatively impact job satisfaction, mental health, and even the quality of healthcare delivered to patients.

4. Reduced Patient Interaction

• EHR Documentation requires more time and attention from the providers.
• These demands often force providers to focus more time on EHR to complete the documentation fully than consulting patients.
• Spending time on EHR documentation the consulting patients will reduce the real face-to-face interaction which often leads to a decrease in patient trust.

5. Lack of Customization

• Many EHR platforms often lack the customization of forms and templates.
• Providers require custom forms and templates which are needed for EHR documentation, especially for specialty practices.
• Dermatology providers require forms and templates that help to document skin or hair-related problems while cardiology focuses on heart and blood vessels.
• Each of the requirements differs from one another.
• Lack of customization or standardized templates will fail to meet the unique needs of each of the specialty practices.
• This limitation forces providers to spend extra time modifying templates or manually entering data.

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How Vozo EHR’s Patient Charting Tool Helps You to Solve Them

However, challenges are many, and implementing Vozo EHR helps to easily tackle all of the challenges above. Vozo EHR is a cloud based EHR. 

It offers various features and functionalities that simplify all healthcare operations. 

One of the features of Vozo EHR is patient charting and AI charting which helps providers speed up the EHR documentation process and ensure quality. Here is how Vozo EHR’s Charting feature helps to tackle the challenges associated with it.

1. Customizable Chart Notes

• Vozo EHR has a form builder that allows users to create customized forms and templates personalized for specific documentation needs.
• During the patient interaction, providers can use the customized forms to speed up the note-taking process. 
• Simply by dragging and dropping specific fields in the builder, providers can easily create customized templates to use for clinical notes.

2. Ready-to-Use Charting Templates

• Providers can use pre-made charting templates within the Vozo EHR.
• Various form types and formats such as SOAP, History & Physical forms are used for clinical note-taking purposes during patient interaction.
• These templates allow you to structure documentation while dynamically integrating patient-specific data using shortcuts.

3. Quick Charting Shortcuts

• Utilizing Macro Buttons, Providers can speed up repetitive documentation tasks during encounters.
• These Macros instantly populate templates or specific line items without the need for manual entry.
• This way not only ensures speeding up the EHR documentation process but also ensures accuracy in clinical notes and final EHR documentation.

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4. Shared Templates Across the Practice

• Providers and administrators can create and update templates and forms.
• Various users can use this lately for documentation purposes during patient encounters.
• Customized and created forms and templates can be easily shared with other providers as well.

5. User-Friendly Interface

• Understanding the complexities and chaos providers face when working in an EHR system.
• Vozo EHR has been built with maximum user-friendliness to make it easier for providers to easily navigate throughout the EHR system.

Vozo EHR Integrated with Amazon Health Scribe

While many mistakes occur in EHR note-taking, you can easily rectify them by relying on the best electronic health records system. 

That’s why we built Vozo Cloud EHR, now seamlessly integrated with Amazon Health Scribe.

Our all-inclusive electronic health records system will make it easier for you to take notes during the patient encounter with enhanced accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, Vozo EHR can be your first option if you’re looking for the greatest EHR system for your medical business.

Our all-inclusive EHR system simplifies and bears all the duties, allowing you to concentrate more on patient care.

• All practice levels benefit from an affordable cloud subscription to Vozo Cloud EHR.
• Our feature-rich EHR facilitates error correction and expedites the process.
• The Vozo meets the needs and requirements of specialized practices specialized EHR.
• If you ever have any questions, our knowledgeable technical staff is here to help.
• As your healthcare facility expands, our EHR System keeps expanding to enhance the user experience.

The Vozo Customized EHR solution, integrated with Amazon Health Scribe, benefits your healthcare practice by streamlining the administrative process, improving workflow efficiency, reducing proneness to errors, and managing all patient records in one place, offering greater efficiency and cost savings across the board.

Our specialty-specific tools like scheduling, patient portals, lab integration, cloud hosting, and more meet the specific needs and requirements of your healthcare practice.

“Embrace Vozo EHR, enhanced with Amazon Health Scribe, to Reduce Your Burdens and Enhance Patient Care.”