Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing information rich services

Healthcare is a service that is vital in today’s world both in terms of providing services that save lives and services that help improve quality of life. Information has a huge to role to play in the delivery of quality healthcare. The process of healthcare starts with information collection and is enhanced by having this information made available to them in an easy to use format at the right time. Medical transcription has a large role to play in transforming the data collected during the patient encounter into information that is legible, clear, accurate and in a convenient format.

The process of medical transcription converts the dictation of the patient – healthcare professional encounter into textual format using a combination of skilled medical transcriptionists, the right process and the right technology. This ensures that the patient medical records are accurate, available on a timely basis, transmitted through secure channels and at a reasonable price. Considering the inputs required for managing a complex and variable process like medical transcription, outsourcing medical transcription to a capable and reliable medical transcription company has been found to be one of the best options.  Creating patient medical records using medical transcription services results in information rich transcripts

Some of features of information rich medical transcription services are:

• Using dictation as a means of capturing information: Using dictation as a means of capturing data at the point of care is one of the most preferred methods by healthcare professionals as opposed to entering data themselves or editing back speech recognition software.  Outsourced transcription services allow healthcare professionals to use dictation devices of their choice. This enables them to concentrate on the patients during the visit and record the details later. This has the double benefit of increasing productivity and quality reports 
• Capturing the entire patient story: Using the services of a professional medical transcription service provider ensures that healthcare professionals have the freedom to capture the entire patient story including the narrative portion. Capturing the narrative portion helps in providing better care and also offers protection against litigation by providing an information rich narrative of the care process. 
• Providing access to this information for future use: The process of care could continue over time and healthcare professionals may need to access information after a period of time. Reports created by medical transcription companies would have information rich content ensuring that healthcare professionals and support staff do not have to entirely on their memory or patient themselves to recall the details of patient medical history. Moreover outsourced medical transcription service providers also archive these records on a periodical basis and these are easy to access using various search criteria. 

Apart from the above advantages of outsourcing medical transcription, transcription services also provide services with advantages like:

• Timely transcription ensuring specified turnaround time
• Easy to use technology for transcription, which lower the burden of healthcare professionals and support staff
• Editing and proofreading services for transcripts created by speech recognition software
• Adoption of EMR/. EHR using HL7 interface 

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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