Excel Transcriptions Inc.

With the implementation of the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act of 2009, many doctors are now spending a significant portion of their time doing data entry work. Juggling between diagnosis and data feeding, a recent study found that, “physicians with EMRs in their exam rooms spend one-third of their time looking at computer screens, compared with physicians who use paper charts who only spent about 9% of their time looking at them.”