After the successful rollout of its clinical documentation and communication platform in the Southeast, Entrada has received venture funding to market the solution nationally to medical groups, hospitals, and electronic health record companies.
“This makes adoption of an EMR by a surgeon much smoother”
Formerly operating as VocalEZ, Entrada replaces medical transcription with a web-based technology platform that lays a foundation for electronic health records (EHR). It also can be used with existing EHR systems to make them more physician-friendly.
Entrada was founded by a health care and technology team who worked closely with physicians to address the hurdles to EHR adoption—physician usability, clinical data entry, and sharing clinical data across platforms and sites.
Entrada automates the end-to-end process of documenting patient visits and then populating EHR, billing, and other systems. The company’s platform allows physicians to continue dictating, which most favor as part of their customary workflow.
Entrada uses a back-end voice recognition system to accelerate document turnaround time. The system is unlike existing front-end voice recognition products that are cumbersome to use and that require physicians to spend their valuable time editing dictated reports at a computer. Entrada can provide fully edited documents back to physicians within hours for their review and signoff.
By automating clinical documentation and communication in a physician-friendly way, Entrada dramatically improves the speed and accuracy of documentation while reducing costs. Customers using the system over the past three years have found that it reduces physician dictation and review time by at least 25 percent, allowing doctors to see more patients or cut back on the evening hours they work on transcription, data entry, or editing. Clients report other benefits including: