Medical transcription outsourcing: Creating meaningful documentation

Healthcare documentation has become a much discussed subject post the proposed move to an electronic healthcare system. As the core of this reform is to make healthcare more accessible and cost effective, healthcare facilities, healthcare professionals and the healthcare documentation sector is striving towards this goal. Traditionally medical transcription has been the process of documenting the process of healthcare by transcribing the narration of the patient- healthcare professional encounter into text format.

With the move towards an electronic healthcare system, healthcare professionals are being offered other methods of capturing information regarding the patient encounter. These include options like point and click entry by the healthcare professional at the point of care, front end speech recognition software etc. Each of these methods of documenting the care process has its own merits, however these methods have some disadvantages like hindering the care process, affecting the healthcare professionals’ productivity and failing to capture the entire patient story.

All these factors affect the various the purposes this information is used for – clinical decision-making, receivables management and risk management. Outsourcing medical transcription to a professional medical transcription company has proven to be a method of documenting the care process, which helps create meaningful documentation.

Given below are some of the areas that outsourced medical transcription services aid in creating meaningful documentation:

Creating patient medical records based on useful standards: The transcripts created by outsourced medical transcription companies meet usability standards like:

• Capturing the narrative to enable clinical decision making
• Detailed records supporting proper coding and billing for better receivables management
• Proper documentation support for risk management

Ease of use for healthcare professionals: Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide services that are easy to use not only for healthcare professionals but also the other support staff involved in the care processes and other aspects. This include easy and user friendly methods of capturing dictation, automatic transmission for transcription, delivery of transcripts within specified turnaround time through preferred modes, interactive systems to keep track of medical transcription progress, access to older transcripts and HL7 interaction for adoption of EMR/EHR.

Reducing costs: Outsourcing medical transcription helps healthcare facilities clamp down on cost of transcription. This includes not only the actual cost of transcription but also all the other indirect cost of medical transcription, which are incurred when medical transcription is executed in-house.

Professional and technologically savvy medical transcription service providers have a large role to play in the move towards electronic healthcare systems by lending their experience and expertise in having successfully served the needs of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. This puts them in an unique position of having an innate knowledge of the operations of healthcare facilities and the work life of healthcare professionals. It enables them to use this knowledge to create solutions that help create meaningful documentation.

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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