Healthcare is an essential service along with the other basic necessities like air, water, food, clothing and housing. Therefore the practice of healthcare requires that healthcare professionals and other entities associated with healthcare come under a strict code of ethics.
Medical transcription is a profession closely associated with the healthcare industry in both the commercial and operational aspects by documenting the patient-healthcare professional encounter.
The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) has come up with the guidelines for code of conduct for healthcare documentation professionals. The code of ethics for medical transcription professionals are as follows:
- Maintain confidentiality of all patient information including but not limited to peer reviews, quality improvement and risk management protocols with special effort to maintain data security in electronic communications.
- Implement and maintain standards of professional transcription practice. Respect the rights and dignity of all individuals.
- Continue professional growth enhancing knowledge and skills, including continuing education, networking with colleagues, professional reading and certification.
- Strive to provide accurate and timely information
- Exercise integrity in professional practices including work or professional experience, credentials, affiliations, productivity reporting, billing charges and payment practices.
- Comply with all laws, regulations and standards governing the practice of patient documentation.
- Foster environments of emplyment that facilitate integrity, professionalism and protection of patient information.
- Strive to advance the goals and purposes of the Association and work for the advancement and good of the profession.
These are code of ethics laid by the AHDI for the members of the association as guidelines. But these code of ethics can be used as guidelines by all entities who are in the business of medical transcription.
TransDyne a leading name in the medical transcription has based the process of transcription based on the code of ethics, which covers all aspects.
- Maintaining confidentiality of patient information: TransDyne believes in maintaining the confidentiality of patient information at all levels. The confidentiality of the data is maintained at all the stages, during transmission, during usage and during storage using the following means:
a) The use of 128-bit data encryption, multi-tiered application architecture, design level security safeguards, firewall protected networks, sterilized e-mail servers, denial of access procedures and multi-modal alerts safeguards data when it is at rest and when data is in motion.
b) Use of processes like company owned & managed facilities, not engaging any sub-contractors, employing manned security at the entry/exit points, round-the-clock video surveillance and the lack of removable storage media protect the data in use. The other measures taken for ensuring security of data in use are limiting the access to the application by User ID and an encrypted password.
c) Educating people on the importance and procedures for HIPAA compliance gives them a professional outlook. Having them give a commitment in writing further ensures HIPAA compliance. This protects the data in all stages.
- Implementing and maintaining professional standards of transcription: TransDyne maintains and implements professional standards of transcription by training the medical transcriptionists rigorously in one or two specialities enabling them to meet standards of accuracy and turnaround time .
- Continuously enhancing the skills of medical transcriptionists through education: TransDyne educates all its’ team of medical transcriptionists constantly updating their knowledge base on the latest developments in the field of medicine.
- Provide timely information: Timely information is provided by TransDyne whenever required.
- Exercising integrity in billing practices: TransDyne uses the character method of billing which fulfills all the billing method principles of being verifiable, measurable, definable, consistent and fair & honest.
- Complying with the laws of patient documentation: TransDyne complies with all the laws that apply to patient documentation.
- Foster the right atmosphere for professionalism and ethics: TransDyne creates a atmosphere which enables an atmosphere of professionalism.
TransDyne offers medical transcription at reasonable prices, done by expert 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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