You could do this for stage 1 MU.
However in stage 2 and later in stage 3 it will be more important to document more things about patient care and using patient portals to access CCD information. Entering diagnoses for the disease state databases that are tracked (i.e. diabetes, htn, obesity, tobacco addiction) will become more important. using it to track health maintenance items (ie. colonoscopy, tobacco cessation counseling, mammography, etc) will also become more important.
Quite frankly, I see keeping a separate dictation system as much MORE work than just using AC as the EMR. For clarity, I am not judging an office's decision to keep two different systems. It just doesn't make sense to do so however. Especially using AC's ability to set templates, an office could only speed up documentation by using AC's features.
