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Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (AIMMC)
Uses Dragon® Medical Network Edition to Drive Cerner
PowerNote™ Adoption Among 2,000 Providers

Challenge

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center desires a paperless workflow, encouraging all of AIMMC’s providers to document patient care within Cerner PowerNote. In addition, hospital administration wanted to reduce transcription costs and ensure that its physicians documented patient care more fully in order to receive higher reimbursements.

Solution

Implement Cerner PowerNote and Dragon Medical Network Edition as part of a completely electronic workflow. Deliver a customized training curriculum, optimizing templates and custom macros to enhance the physicians natural medical workflow.

Result

Nearly 600 providers at AIMMC are using Dragon Medical Network Edition to document notes in the Cerner Millennium EHR system. Physicians using Dragon Medical Network Edition are more efficient and provide more thorough patient documentation. Hospital administration has realized substantially lower transcription costs: more than 70% savings of Outsourced Transcription and more than 50% savings of Net Transcription cost savings, which allows the hospital to focus limited resources on providing excellent patient care.