Medical transcription outsourcing: Providing perceptive services

The process of healthcare is complemented by inputs from various sources to provide effective and efficient healthcare services. As the healthcare sector deals with services that help improve quality of life and life saving services, it is important that the quality of inputs that contribute to the healthcare process meet the highest quality standards. Healthcare is supported by information from patient records in both the process of providing quality care and dealing with administrative & commercial aspects. It is important that the process of healthcare is documented accurately and in a timely manner to enable streamlined operations.

Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records by converting the audio inputs of the patient- healthcare professional encounter into text format. Healthcare facilities have various options available to them to avail medical transcription services including having an in-house department, outsourcing to independent contractors or availing the services of a outsourced medical transcription service provider or even a combination of two or more of these sources. However in the interest of quality output, curbing costs and having a proper system for transcription, outsourcing to a professional medical transcription service provider has been found to be the most viable option.

Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide perceptive medical transcription solutions for the needs of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities. Outsourced service providers provide services that combine:

• An insight into the workings of healthcare facilities: Medical transcription services have evolved into sophisticated services that extend beyond mere typing services. Medical transcription service providers have an insight into the workings of healthcare facilities and have tailored medical transcription services and technology to support the smooth running of healthcare facilities with regard to patient medical record creation.

• Acumen to provide solutions to the perceived requirements: Medical transcription service providers have anticipated the specific requirements of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities and provided solutions to meet these requirements. The service providers have used their experience and background to create solutions that provide for:

1.     Allowing for using preferred methods of capturing dictation

2.     Systems that automatically check for dictation files and upload the same for transcription at specified intervals

3.     Specialty-specific trained medical transcriptionists to enhance quality of service in terms of turnaround time and accuracy.

4.     Archiving of transcripts allowing for easy search options

5.     Secure and speedy document delivery modes as specified by the healthcare professional/ healthcare facility.

6.     Constantly work at updating and improving security measures to mitigate concerns regarding HIPAA and HITECH violation

• Discernment that provides services according to changing needs: It is a known fact that the documentation specifications of the healthcare sector are governed by statutory norms. Taking the latest meaningful use requirements mandating EMR/ EHR adoption, medical transcription service providers have discerning included the following in the scope of their services:

1.     Speech recognition transcription

2.     HL7 interface enabling transmission of information to the EMR/ EHR

It can be seen that choosing the right medical transcription service provider ensures healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals with not only accurate, timely, secure and cost effective creation of patient medical records but also provides perceptive services that help healthcare facilities cope with the changing healthcare documentation scenario.

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 total 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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