Medical transcription services: Proactive to the needs of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities

Healthcare is a sector that is dependent on various sources to be able to provide quality services. Apart from the skill, qualification and experience of healthcare professionals and other staff, the healthcare process draws support from various sources like laboratories, pharmaceuticals, surgical and other healthcare equipment to be able to deliver quality healthcare. The process of healthcare as well as healthcare professionals have to document every step in the process of healthcare. This ensures that they can draw information from these records for various purposes. The information in patient medical records also provides valuable inputs to other entities that are involved in other aspects of successfully running a healthcare facility.

The inputs for the data that form a part of the patient medical record comes from various sources including:

• Critical care
• Emergency department
• Pharmacy
• Laboratory
• Radiology
• Cardiology
• Labor & delivery

The information from patient medical records is utilized by:

• The coding and billing department
• Health information management professionals
• Risk managers
• Reporting to statutory authorities
• People involved in scheduling patient visits

The smooth and profitable running of healthcare facilities depends on not only accurate and timely information but also easy access to the information.

Medical transcription is the process of creating patient medical records of the patient- healthcare professional encounter. As information from patient medical records is vital for smooth running of healthcare facilities and helps them in various aspects of running the healthcare facility, it is important that the medical transcription process meets all the quality criteria. As medical transcription is a specialized skill and the role of medical transcription services has evolved to fulfill a broader role in aiding the healthcare process, the prudent option for healthcare facilities is to outsource medical transcription to a professional medical transcription service provider.

Outsourcing medical transcription to a professional service provider helps the documentation process in various aspects, including creating proactive solutions based on the developing requirements of the healthcare facility, healthcare professionals and fulfilling statutory requirements.

How does outsourced medical transcription services provide proactive solutions?

• Providing software and tools for medical transcription: The process of medical transcription requires a foolproof system to ensure collection & transmission of dictation files and a process by which the finished transcripts are made available to the healthcare professional through document delivery modes of their choice. The software and tools provided by the medical transcription service provider needs to not only ensure speed and convenience but also ensure security throughout the medical transcription process.

• Archives: The information from patient medical records provides useful inputs for various purposes to different departments in the healthcare facility. It is important that the healthcare professionals and the support staff at the healthcare facility have easy access to older transcripts. Outsourced medical transcription service providers provide archiving systems that enable easy access.

• Retaining the tried and tested way of information assimilation: With the prospect of adopting EMR/ EHR systems looming in the horizon, outsourced medical transcription service providers can provide major support to healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals to retain tried and tested methods of information assimilation by facilitating EMR adoption through HL7 interface.

• Speech recognition transcription: Speech recognition software has been adopted by many healthcare professionals. Though this software meets the turnaround time requirements, it requires extensive editing and proofreading meeting acceptable accuracy standards. Outsourced medical transcription service providers have stepped into the breach and are providing editing and proofreading services for these transcripts.

Outsourced medical transcription service providers have always anticipated the needs of healthcare documentation by studying the way the healthcare system works. They have used the right software and tools to provide services that meet the quality criteria of accuracy, turnaround time and security, while reducing prices and retaining convenience and familiar working modes.

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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