Medical transcription has been a part of healthcare, helping in the creation of patient medical records from the dictation of the healthcare professional regarding the patient encounter. Medical transcription services have evolved with the advances in technology and the advent of the Internet. This has in effect eliminated the need for the physical presence of the medical transcriptionist in the healthcare facility, giving rise to specialized, outsourced medical transcription services. Outsourcing medical transcription has numerous advantages, some of which are given below:
Value addition: By outsourcing medical transcription, healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities gain in terms of an unlimited access to trained and skilled medical transcriptionists. This adds value to the healthcare process by ensuring quality documentation. Proper documentation results in better clinical decision making, receivables management and risk management.
Be an integral part of the organizational process: Outsourced medical transcription services though essentially removed from the physical premises of the healthcare facility have become an integral part of the organization process by easing the process of collection of audio files, creation of transcripts and the delivery of transcripts
Be part of decision-making: The process of clinical decision-making is incomplete without proper information regarding the patient encounter. Outsourced medical transcription services ensure that accurate information is available in a timely manner.
Explicitly address uncertainty: Medical transcriptionists address any uncertainty in the dictation by the healthcare professional explicitly. Efforts are made to transcribe the dictation as completely as possible, doubts are clarified by conducting extensive research, putting each transcript through a stringent quality assurance process and leaving the space blank if the information is unidentifiable through any of these methods, for the healthcare professional to fill in
Systematic and structured: Not only do outsourced medical transcription service providers have a systematic and structured process for providing quality medical transcription services, but they also provide a systematic structure for medical transcription to healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. Factors like uploading dictation, keeping track of work in progress and document delivery are all provided for by the software and tools used by the medical transcription service provider
Tailored: Instead of offering generic services, outsourced medical transcription service providers strive to provide services that are customized to meet the specific needs of the healthcare facility and healthcare professionals. Factors like turnaround time options, modes of dictation, document delivery modes, templates/ formats etc are tailored to meet the specific needs of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities
Take into account human factors: Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide services that take into consideration human factors, that is why they provide options like outsourcing the overflow work, transcription for unpredictable volumes, holiday and weekend transcription etc.
Transparent and inclusive: Outsourced medical transcription service providers strive to have a transparent system to fulfill both quality and HIPAA/ HITECH requirements.
Dynamic and responsive to change: Outsourced medical transcription service providers are constantly striving to improve their services to be in tune with the changing healthcare documentation needs. That is why medical transcription service providers have included editing and proofreading services for speech recognition software and adoption of EMR/EHR using HL7 interface as part of their services.
Partnering with the right medical transcription service provider not only ensures accurate, timely, secure and cost-effective creation of patient medical records but also provides the right technology support, which results in overall improvement of services.
TransDyne, a leader in the outsourced medical transcription industry has used their extensive background in information technology and their experience in serving the needs of the healthcare sector to provide affordable and integrated medical transcription solutions.
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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