Medical transcription outsourcing : Helps streamline and improve operations

Providing quality healthcare is a continuous process, involving constant endeavors to improve on quality of services while still maintaining profitability. The healthcare process is complex and therefore the operations of healthcare facilities immaterial of the size of the facility or the number of healthcare professionals working, is very complicated.

The healthcare process requires inputs from very various sources to meet the standards of quality healthcare of being safe, appropriate, timely, and cost effective. To this end healthcare facilities have to increase their focus on their core activity- that of providing quality healthcare and outsource the rest of the processes that are not part of their core business. One such activity that has a role to play in the healthcare process is medical transcription, which is the process of creating patient medical records from the narration of the healthcare professional regarding the patient- healthcare professional encounter. Outsourcing medical transcription can help the healthcare facility streamline and improve their operations.

How does outsourcing medical transcription help streamline and improve operations of the healthcare facility?

Outsourcing medical transcription to the right medical transcription service provider can help the healthcare facilities improve their operations at several levels:

• By creating patient records on time: Patient records provide an important support to the treatment process by providing the healthcare professionals a summary of the patient's medical history. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that patient records are created on time. This not only supports the healthcare professional by providing a valuable diagnostic tool, but also helps in accelerating the reimbursement process.
• By accurate creation of transcripts: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the quality of patient records is maintained by accurately and comprehensively capturing all details. The outsourced service provider would be able to ensure maximum accuracy by having teams of trained medical transcriptionists to execute the medical transcription work and also ensuring that all transcripts are put through a rigorous quality check process to minimize errors.
• By providing support for varying volumes of transcription requirement: The volume of medical transcription support required is impossible to predict, as it depends on the inflow of patients at any given time. Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that the accuracy and turnaround time of medical transcription are unaffected in spite of fluctuations in volume.
• By allowing healthcare professionals to retain familiar modes of dictation: Allowing healthcare professionals and support staff the flexibility to retain familiar modes of dictation ensures that they can optimize their time for maximum productivity.
• By providing regular job summaries: Keeping track of dictations, work in progress and transcripts can be a tedious and time consuming task, especially in healthcare facilities with high volumes. Outsourcing medical transcription can make managing transcription much easier by providing a job summary of the work enabling them to track of it.
• By enabling easy access to older transcripts: Many outsourced medical transcription service providers archive the older transcripts after a certain period of time. The support staff at the healthcare facility can easily access these files as and when required using various search criteria.
• By providing diverse modes of document delivery: Outsourcing medical transcription ensures that transcripts are delivered to the healthcare facility, the healthcare professionals and the support staff in a secure and efficient mode through the mode specified by them.
• By reducing cost of medical transcription: Outsourcing medical transcription results in a substantial savings on cost of transcription both direct and indirect. In fact outsourcing converts the fixed cost of medical transcription to variable cost restricted to the extent of usage of services.
• By providing technology that is easy to use: Outsourcing medical transcription provides software and tools for transcription that enables various features that benefit the healthcare facility and the healthcare professionals in various ways while still being easy to use.
• By enabling adoption of EMR: Outsourced medical transcription service providers enable the healthcare facilities to protect existing investments in EMR by providing HL7 interface.

Using the right combination of a trained team, the right processes and the right technology, outsourced service providers provide medical transcription solutions that help streamline and improve operations of healthcare facilities.

 

TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has been providing medical transcription services for over a decade. TransDyne offers quality medical transcription at reasonable prices, executed by experienced and qualified medical transcriptionists with a very quick turnaround time executed through secure HIPAA and HITECH compliant channels, with very high levels of accuracy and all this with technology that is advanced but easy to use!

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