Monday, October 17, 2011

Medical transcription outsourcing: Meaningful and practical services

Effective communication and sharing of meaningful healthcare information is the key to achieving meaningful use objectives. Medical transcription the process of creating patient medical records from the dictation of healthcare professionals regarding the patient encounter offers meaningful and practical services that help healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities move towards achieving these objectives.

Meaningful and practical medical transcription services:

Creation of patient medical records with narrative: One of the major advantages of medical transcription services apart from the quality of transcription is that of creation of patient medical records that include the narrative portion. Narrative portion of the patient medical record plays a valuable part in providing meaningful context to the diagnostic process. Over time when patient medical records are accessed for various purposes like continued care, audits, coding & billing and for risk management purposes having the narrative part of the record helps in healthcare professionals and support staff understand the content and context of the treatment process.

Providing options for structured data to be captured: Not only do medical transcription services create patient medical records with the narrative portion intact, but keeping in mind the need to adopt EMR/ EHR they also provide options for capturing structured data elements and parsing them on to the EMR/ EHR. They provide options like discrete reportable transcription, structured transcription, structured dictation and parse the relevant data to the EMR/ EHR using HL7 interface

Practical to the needs of healthcare professionals: The adoption of meaningful use has lead to the availability of numerous options for creation of patient medical records. However on the downside many of these options require healthcare professionals to capture the data themselves, which dilutes their focus on patients and curbs their productivity. Medical transcription offers solutions for creation of patient medical records that are practically suited to the work life of healthcare professionals. Moreover medical transcription companies offer practical options for modes of dictation, delivery modes, editing & proofreading services for speech recognition software among numerous other options

Commercially practical: Apart from being operationally practical, medical transcription services are also commercially viable. Medical transcription companies offer solutions that help healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities curb direct and indirect costs. Quick and timely transcription also encourages timely coding billing leading to quicker reimbursements.

Technology support: Another area that medical transcription companies provide meaningful and practical solutions is that of providing technology support.  The process of documenting the care process starting from the collection of information to the secure delivery of finished transcripts needs technology to ensure convenience, speed and security. Outsourcing medical transcription to a reliable, professional and technologically savvy medical transcription service provider helps in all these aspects.

In conclusion we can say that outsourcing medical transcription provides practical and meaningful solutions.

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.

Among the software and tools offered by TransDyne for transcription, the smart delivery system has a large role to play in easing the path to EMR/EHR adoption The Smart Delivery system, which has features like User defined folder paths to enable easy imports to EMR systems is the suggested mode of document delivery where pre-defined file saving would help import documents to EMR systems.  Apart from this TransDyne also offers discounted rates for those healthcare facilities that provide demographic data entered in the EMR rather than through other modes.

Along with medical transcription services involving multiple level quality checks to ensure accuracy, the use of the right technology for ease of use, turnaround time and security, at reasonable rates, TransDyne also provides discrete reportable transcription and editing & proofreading services for adoption of EMR/ EHR 

To avail complete medical transcription services from TransDyne, click here.

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