Healthcare is a service that becomes better enabled to deliver quality services by drawing inputs from various sectors. Quality healthcare not only depends on the skill and experience of healthcare professionals but also the quality of other inputs to the care process. One of the inputs that help in the delivery of quality healthcare and smoother operations is the quality of patient medical records. The creation of quality patient medical records not only affects the process of providing care but also the receivables cycle, risk management and other aspects of a healthcare facility’s operations.
Medical transcription is one of the methods used for documenting the care process. However in recent times with the proposed move towards an electronic healthcare system, many other methods of documenting the care process have been introduced. Each method has its own advantages and drawbacks, however medical transcription services, especially when outsourced have proven to not only meet all the criteria of accuracy, turnaround time, reasonable costs and easy to use technology but also additionally help provide stability to the healthcare facility operations.
How does outsourcing medical transcription provide stability to healthcare facility operations?
Medical transcription services have been supporting healthcare for a long time and this experience combined with their expertise has put them in a position to not only serve current needs but also anticipate future needs and provide services accordingly.
Medical transcription companies use the “ASK’ concept of combining skills and knowledge for the activity of healthcare documentation.
Skills: Medical transcription companies have worked hard at acquiring and developing the right talent in the form of medical transcriptionists. Medical transcription companies provide relief to the operations of healthcare facilities in this aspect by providing manpower support to the varying volumes of transcription including holiday and weekend transcription needs. This availability of skilled medical transcriptionists helps medical transcription companies in delivering acceptable accuracy within the committed turnaround time
The skills of the medical transcription company also enable them to develop processes for adherence to quality and security. This helps medical transcription companies to provide services that are HIPAA and HITECH compliant.
Knowledge: The expertise of the medical transcription company in using software and tools for providing easy to use features that cover factors like dictation modes, document delivery modes, easy access to archives etc.
Medical transcription companies also ease the path to adoption of EMR/ EHR by offering options like proofreading & editing services for speech recognition software, structured dictation, structured transcription, discrete reportable transcription and HL7 interface while still retaining the familiar and preferred method of dictation-to-transcription method of documenting the care process.
Activity: The activities of medical transcription companies extend to providing customized and complete solution for the healthcare documentation needs that are easy to use. Service is consistently provided for the varying volumes that incur due the unpredictable patient inflows.
It can be concluded that medical transcription companies combine skills and knowledge for the activity of medical transcription services that provide stability to the healthcare facilities’ operations on all aspects
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 for adoption of EMR/ EHR
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